Systems and methods for controlling email access
AssigneeAirWatch LLC
InventorErich Stuntebeck
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Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to proxying at least one email resource from at least one email service to at least one client device, determining whether the email resources are accessible to the client devices via at least one unauthorized application on the client devices, and modifying the email resources to be inaccessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices in response to a determination that the email resources are accessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices.
Claims20
A method for managing access to content associated with email by an access control server, comprising:
- obtaining an email message for transmission to a client, the email message obtained from an email server, wherein the access control server is configured to proxy email messages from the email server to a client device;
- determining that access to the email message should be restricted on the client device according to at least one resource rule;
- generating a modified email message based upon the email message, wherein access to content of the modified email message is inaccessible as specified by the at least one resource rule;
- and
- transmitting the modified email message to the client device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a program which, when executed by a processor, manage access to content associated with email by an access control server and caused the processor to at least:
- obtain an email message for transmission to a client, the email message obtained from an email server, wherein the access control server is configured to proxy email messages from the email server to a client device;
- determine that access to the email message should be restricted on the client device;
- generate a modified email message based upon the email message, wherein access to content of the modified email message is inaccessible by an unauthorized application installed on the client device;
- and
- transmit the modified email message to the client device.
An access control server that manages access to content associated with email by an access control server, the access control server executing an application that is configured to at least:
- obtain an email message for transmission to a client, the email message obtained from an email server, wherein the access control server is configured to proxy email messages from the email server to a client device;
- determine that access to the email message should be restricted on the client device;
- generate a modified email message based upon the email message, wherein access to content of the modified email message is inaccessible by an unauthorized application installed on the client device;
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- transmit the modified email message to the client device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.