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US 2017/0302449 A1Published application
Secure app-to-app communication
AssigneeMobile Iron, Inc.
InventorsThomas Edward Wagner, Robert Elliott Whiteman
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Abstract
Secure application-to-application communication is disclosed. A shared encryption key may be used to encrypt data to be transferred from a first mobile application to a second mobile application. The encrypted data is provided to a shared storage location. The second mobile application is configured to retrieve the encrypted data from the shared storage location.
Claims27
A method, comprising:
- providing, from a first mobile application of a mobile device to a second mobile application of the mobile device, a first encryption information associated with the first mobile application;
- receiving the second encryption information associated with the second mobile application;
- generating a shared encryption key based at least in part on the first encryption information and the second encryption information;
- using the shared encryption key to encrypt data to be transferred from the first mobile application to the second mobile application;
- determining whether a shared storage location with which to share data with the second mobile application exists;
- in the event the shared storage location does not exist:
- generating, by the first mobile application, the shared storage location with which to share data with the second mobile application;
- and
- providing the encrypted data to the shared storage location;
- in the event the shared storage location does exist, providing the encrypted data to the shared storage location.
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A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to:
- provide, from a first mobile application of the system to a second mobile application of the system, a first encryption information associated with the first mobile application;
- receive the second encryption information associated with the second mobile application;
- generate a shared encryption key based at least in part on the first encryption information and the second encryption information;
- use a shared encryption key to encrypt data to be transferred from the first mobile application to the second mobile application;
- determine whether a shared storage location with which to share data with the second mobile application exists;
- in the event the shared storage location does not exist:
- generate, by the first mobile application, the shared storage location with which to share data with the second mobile application;
- provide the encrypted data to the shared storage location;
- in the event the shared storage location does exist, providing the encrypted data to the shared storage location.
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A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- providing, from a first mobile application of a mobile device to a second mobile application of the mobile device, a first encryption information associated with the first mobile application;
- receiving the second encryption information associated with the second mobile application;
- generating a shared encryption key based at least in part on the first encryption information and the second encryption information;
- using a shared encryption key to encrypt data to be transferred from the first mobile application to the second mobile application;
- determining whether a shared storage location with which to share data with the second mobile application exists;
- in the event the shared storage location does not exist:
- generating, by the first mobile application, a shared storage location with which to share data with the second mobile application;
- and
- providing the encrypted data to the shared storage location;
- in the event the shared storage location does exist, providing the encrypted data to the shared storage location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.