US 2018/0321970 A1 · Controlling Background Activity of an Application Using a Policy

Abstract

Described herein is a system for controlling background execution of an application based on a stored policy. The stored policy can be defined by an enterprise administrator. The policy controls an ability of an application to execute in the background. The system includes a background access manager component that, in response to a request to execute in the background received from the application, determines whether or not to allow the application to execute in the background based upon the policy, a user-configured master control policy and/or relevant system state.

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A system for controlling background execution of an application based on a stored policy:

a computer comprising a processor and a memory, the memory comprising:
a policy store configured to store a policy for controlling an ability of an application to execute in the background;
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a background access manager component configured to, in response to a request to execute in the background received from the application, determine whether or not to allow the application to execute in the background based upon the policy, the background access manager component further configured to allow the application to execute in the background when the policy identifies the application as allowed to execute in the background.

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Abstract

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