Limiting client side data storage based upon client geo-location

A data processing system configured for limiting client side data storage based upon client geolocation, the data processing system comprising:

• a mobile computing device comprising both static and dynamic memory and at least one processor;
• a cache disposed in the static memory of the mobile computing device and another cache disposed in memory of a server that is separate from the mobile computing device;
• and,
• a cache manager remotely disposed over a computer communications network from both the mobile computing device and the server, but coupled to both of the caches, the cache manager comprising program code enabled upon execution to receive a request to cache data, to retrieve a geolocation for the mobile device contemporaneous with the receipt of the request, to determine from the geolocation whether or not the mobile device is present within a restricted geographic zone in which caching of data outside of the mobile device is prohibited, and to respond to a determination that the mobile device is present within a restricted geographic zone, by caching of the data in the cache disposed in the static memory of the mobile device instead of caching the received data in a cache disposed externally to the mobile device, but otherwise by caching the data in the remotely disposed cache externally to the mobile device.

A computer program product for differentiated treatment of data at rest in a mobile device, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• establishing a communicative link between the mobile device and a remotely disposed cache manager service;
• receiving from the mobile device an indication of receipt of data in static memory of the mobile device from over a computer communications network;
• retrieving from the mobile device in the remotely disposed cache manager service, a geolocation for the mobile device contemporaneous with the receipt of the data;
• determining from the geolocation whether or not the mobile device is present within a restricted geographic zone in which caching of data outside of the mobile device is prohibited;
• and
• responsive to determining that the mobile device is present within a restricted geographic zone, the remotely disposed cache manager service directing the caching of the received data in a cache in static memory of the mobile device instead of caching the received data in another cache disposed externally to the mobile device in memory of a server that is separate from the mobile device and separate from but communicatively linked to the remotely disposed cache manager service in the computer communications network, but otherwise caching the received data in the cache that is disposed externally to the mobile device.