Policy-based mobile access to shared network resources
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorsAnand Taralika, Divakara Challa, Srin Kumar, Alok Ojha, Leonard Chung
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Abstract
Techniques to provide mobile access to content are disclosed. A request from a mobile application running on a mobile device to access content is received at a connector node. A user credential associated with the request is used to identify at the connector node a policy associated with the request. A policy metadata associated with the policy is provided from the connector node to the mobile application running on the mobile device. The mobile application may include application code that is responsive to the policy metadata to perform, with respect to the request to access content, an action indicated by the policy.
Claims15
A method to provide mobile access to content, comprising:
- receiving, by a connector node, a request to access content, the request being communicated from a mobile application running on a mobile device;
- and
- in response receiving the access request,
- determining, by the connector node, a policy associated with the request to access content, the policy being determined based at least in part on a user credential associated with the request to access content;
- obtaining, by the connector node, a policy metadata to be provided to the mobile device in connection with providing to the mobile device the content associated with the request to access content, the policy metadata being determined based at least in part on the user credential and the policy, wherein the policy metadata identifies one or more permitted actions with respect to the content;
- providing, by the connector node, the content associated with the request to access the content, the content being provided to the mobile device;
- and
- providing, by the connector node to the mobile application running on the mobile device, the policy metadata in connection with the providing of the content, wherein the policy metadata identifies one or more permitted actions with respect to the content.
A system to provide mobile access to content, comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
- receive, via the communication interface, a request to access content, the request being communicated from a mobile application running on a mobile device;
- and
- in response to the connector node receiving the access request,
- determining, by the connector node, a policy associated with the request to access content, the policy being determined based at least in part on a user credential associated with the request to access content;
- obtain, by the connector node, a policy metadata to be provided to the mobile device in connection with providing to the mobile device the content associated with the request to access content, the policy metadata being determined based at least in part on the user credential and the policy, wherein the policy metadata identifies one or more permitted actions with respect to the content;
- provide, by the connector node, the content associated with the request to access the content, the content being provided to the mobile device;
- and
- provide, to the mobile application running on the mobile device, the policy metadata in connection with the providing of the content, wherein the policy metadata identifies one or more permitted actions with respect to the content.
A method to provide mobile access to content, comprising:
- receiving, by a connector node, a request to access content, the request being communicated from a mobile application running on a mobile device;
- and
- in response receiving the access request,
- determining, by the connector node, a policy associated with the request to access content, the policy being determined based at least in part on a user credential associated with the request to access content;
- obtaining, by the connector node, a policy metadata to be provided to the mobile device in connection with providing to the mobile device the content associated with the request to access content, the policy metadata being determined based at least in part on the user credential and the policy, wherein the policy metadata identifies one or more permitted actions with respect to the content;
- providing, by the connector node, the content associated with the request to access the content, the content being provided to the mobile device;
- and
- providing, by the connector node to the mobile application running on the mobile device, the policy metadata in connection with the providing of the content, wherein the policy metadata identifies one or more permitted actions with respect to the content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.