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US 2013/0097517 A1Published application
Permission Control for Applications
OwnerDavid Scott Reiss, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos +1inventors
InventorsDavid Scott Reiss, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Sara Marie Golemon
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Abstract
In one embodiment, methods and systems enabling a user to control access by an application to one or more hardware components of a user's client device and to user data stored remotely and/or locally on the user's client device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- by a computing device associated with a user,
- in response to a request associated with an application hosted on the computing device,
- presenting in a user interface resource access data identifying one or more hardware components of the computing device and one or more elements of user data stored on a remote host;
- receiving a response from the user with respect to the resource access data;
- and
- responsive to an indication of a grant of access to the application, configuring the computing device to allow the application access to the one or more hardware components of the computing device and the one or more elements of user data stored on a remote host;
- and
- transmitting the indication of the grant of access to the application to the remote host.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a memory;
- a network interface;
- one or more processors;
- a storage medium containing computer-readable instructions operable, when executed, to cause the apparatus and the one or more processors to:
- in response to a request associated with an application hosted on the apparatus,
- present, in a user interface, resource access data identifying one or more hardware components of the apparatus and one or more elements of user data stored on a remote host;
- receiving a response from a user with respect to the resource access data;
- and
- responsive to an indication of a grant of access to the application, configuring the computing device to allow the application access to the one or more hardware components of the apparatus and the one or more elements of user data stored on a remote host;
- and
- transmitting the indication of the grant of access to the application to the remote host.
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media embodying logic that is operable when executed to:
- in response to a request associated with an application hosted on a computing device associated with a user,
- present in a user interface resource access data identifying one or more hardware components of the computing device and one or more elements of user data stored on a remote host;
- receive a response from the user with respect to the resource access data;
- and
- responsive to an indication of a grant of access to the application, configure the computing device to allow the application access to the one or more hardware components of the computing device and the one or more elements of user data stored on a remote host;
- and
- transmit the indication of the grant of access to the application to the remote host.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.