System and method for context aware mobile policies
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAdiel O. Ruiz
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Abstract
A system and method for network policy enforcement for portable data devices such as smartphones, tablets or notebook computers uses the portable device to self-enforce prescribed policies. A beacon generator generates a wireless security beacon in accordance with an output of the beacon generator and a wireless data interface receives an access request from a portable data device. Digital security policy data configured to enable a preselected set of functions on the portable data device is stored in the data storage. The processor communicates the policy data to the portable data device in accordance with a received access request via the wireless data interface.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a beacon generator;
- a beacon output configured to generate a wireless security beacon in accordance with an output of the beacon generator;
- a wireless data interface configured to receive an access request from a portable data device;
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- a processor and associated data storage,
- the data storage storing digital security policy data configured to enable a preselected set of functions on the portable data device, and
- the processor configured to communicate the policy data to the portable data device in accordance with a received access request via the wireless data interface.
A method comprising:
- generating a wireless security beacon;
- receiving an access request from a portable data device responsive to the wireless security beacon via a wireless data interface;
- and
- communicating policy data configured to selectively enable a preselected set of functions to the portable data device in accordance with the received access request via the wireless data interface.
A portable data device comprising:
- a processor and associated memory;
- a user interface;
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- a wireless data communication interface configured to receive broadcast data from an associated wireless network,
- wherein the processor is configured to generate a policy acceptance prompt on a display of the user interface in accordance with received broadcast data,
- wherein the processor is further configured to transmit acceptance data indicative of user policy acceptance received via the user interface responsive to the acceptance prompt via the wireless interface,
- wherein the wireless data communication interface is further configured to receive policy data into the memory via the wireless interface, and
- wherein the processor is further configured to selectively enable a subset of portable data device functions in accordance with received policy data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.