Location and time based mobile app policies
AssigneeMobile Iron, Inc.
InventorsMansu Kim, Joshua Sirota, Suresh Kumar Batchu
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Abstract
Location, time, and other contextual mobile application policies are disclosed. Access state information associated with a managed set of applications may be determined based at least in part on environmental context data associated with a mobile device and one or more contextual policies associated with the managed set of applications. The access state information may be provided to at least one application included in the managed set of applications, wherein at least one application in the managed set of applications is configured to use the access state information to regulate use of the application in a manner required by the one or more contextual policies.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining, at a management agent on a mobile device, access state information associated with a managed subset of two or more applications based at least in part on environmental context data associated with a mobile device and one or more contextual policies associated with the managed set of applications, the contextual policies determined at a security management platform to be associated with the managed subset of applications;
- and
- providing the access state information from the management application to a library associated with a managed application included in the managed set of applications, wherein the library associated with the managed application is configured to use the access state information to regulate use of the application in a manner required by the one or more contextual policies.
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:
- determine, at a management agent on a mobile device, access state information associated with a managed subset of two or more applications based at least in part on environmental context data associated with a mobile device and one or more contextual policies associated with the managed set of applications, the contextual policies determined at a security management platform to be associated with the managed subset of applications;
- and
- provide the access state information from the management application to a library associated with a managed application included in the managed set of applications, wherein the library associated with the managed application is configured to use the access state information to regulate use of the application in a manner required by the one or more contextual policies.
A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- determining, at a management agent on a mobile device, access state information associated with a managed subset of two or more applications based at least in part on environmental context data associated with a mobile device and one or more contextual policies associated with the managed set of applications, the contextual policies determined at a security management platform to be associated with the managed subset of applications;
- and
- providing the access state information from the management application to a library associated with a managed application included in the managed set of applications, wherein the library associated with the managed application is configured to use the access state information to regulate use of the application in a manner required by the one or more contextual policies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.