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US 10,853,490 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for managing hardware resource access in an electronic device
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPaihan Huang, Maoter Chen, I-Hsuan Yang
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Abstract
Embodiments provide methods and apparatuses to manage hardware resource access on a mobile device comprising detecting an attempt by the first application to access the first hardware resource when the application is executing in the background and determining that there is not a policy for the first application to access the first hardware, providing a notification requesting user input thereof, and adding a new policy accordingly.
Claims18
A method to manage hardware resource access on a mobile device, the method comprising:
- granting permission to a first application to access a first hardware resource, wherein the first hardware resource is a camera of the mobile device or a microphone of the mobile device;
- after granting permission to the first application to access the first hardware resource, detecting a first attempt by the first application to access the first hardware resource;
- in response to detecting the first attempt by the first application to access the first hardware resource, determining whether the first application is executing in a background of the mobile device;
- in response to determining that the first application is executing in the background of the mobile device and that permission to the first application to access the first hardware resource has previously been granted, obtaining a first operational mode of the mobile device, wherein the first operational mode indicates whether the mobile device is in a locked state or an unlocked state;
- determining that a policy that grants permission for the first application to access the first hardware resource during the first operational mode of the mobile device does not exist;
- and
- denying access to the first hardware resource by the first application in response to determining that the policy does not exist.
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A mobile electronic device, comprising:
- a display;
- a memory storing instructions;
- and
- one or more processors in communication with the memory and the display, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
- grant permission to a first application to access a first hardware resource, wherein the first hardware resource is a camera of the mobile electronic device or a microphone of the mobile electronic device;
- after granting permission to the first application to access the first hardware resource, detect a first attempt by the first application to access the first hardware resource;
- in response to detecting the first attempt by the first application to access the first hardware resource, determine whether the first application is executing in a background of the mobile electronic device;
- in response to determining that the first application is executing in the background of the mobile electronic device and that permission to the first application to access the first hardware resource has previously been granted, obtain a first operational mode of the mobile electronic device, wherein the first operational mode indicates whether the mobile electronic device is in a locked state or an unlocked state;
- determine that a policy that grants permission for the first application to access the first hardware resource during the first operational mode of the mobile electronic device does not exist;
- and
- deny access to the first hardware resource by the first application in response to determining that the policy does not exist.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.