US 2021/0243595 A1 · Use Of Geolocation To Improve Security While Protecting Privacy

Abstract

Security policies are made dependent on location of a device and the location of a device is determined and the appropriate security policy applied without providing the device's location to a server. A device determine its location and identifies a security policy identifier mapped to a zone including the location. The device requests the security policy corresponding to the identifier from a server and implements it. The device may also store a database of the security policies and implement them according to its location. Devices registered for a user evaluate whether locations detected for the devices correspond to impossible travel by the user. Objects encoding geolocation data of a device may be encrypted with a private key of the device and the public key of another to prevent access by an intermediary server.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

determining, via a processor of a computing device, a location of the computing device;
receiving a first security policy based on a first determination of a first zone representing a first section of a geographic area including the location of the computing device;
receiving a second security policy based on a second determination of a second zone representing a second section of the geographic area including the location;
determining that the first security policy permits an action on the computing device not permitted by the second security policy;
determining that the second security policy permits a second action on the computing device not permitted by the first security policy;
and
implementing an aggregate security policy with respect to the computing device, the aggregate security policy being based on the first security policy and the second security policy on the computing device, the aggregate security policy prohibiting the first action on the computing device and prohibiting the second action on the computing device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable code that, when executed by one or more processing devices of a mobile device, causes the one or more processing devices to:

detect a location of the computing device;
identify a corresponding zone of a plurality of zones including the location, each zone of the plurality of zones being mapped to a security policy of a plurality of security policies;
and
implement the security policy of the plurality of security policies mapped to the corresponding zone in cooperation with a server system without transmitting the location of the computing device to the server system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Use Of Geolocation To Improve Security While Protecting Privacy

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Abstract

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