Locked Home Screen - help

My iPhone 4S is not accepting my pin code. Siri is telling me the home screen is locked.  Not sure how it happened, can only assume I hit the wrong key or key combinations at some point while using it this afternoon. Any suggestions?  Far from home and my iTunes software is on another computer.

Try a reset by pressing the home and sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.

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