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US 9,794,351 B2Granted
Distributed management with embedded agents in enterprise apps
AssigneeMobile Iron, Inc.
InventorsMansu Kim, Suresh Kumar Batchu, Joshua Sirota
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Abstract
Distributed mobile device management including a plurality of management agents is disclosed. Management-related information may be retrieved from a storage location accessible to a plurality of management agents. The management-related information may have been provided to the storage location from a management agent associated with a managed application. And at least one operation may be performed based at least in part on the management-related information.
Claims17
A method, comprising:
- retrieving, from a storage location of a mobile device by a first management agent of the mobile device, management-related information provided to the storage location by a second management agent of the mobile device upon interruption of at least one operation of a second managed application, wherein the management-related information at least includes management state information that indicates a current state of the at least one operation and wherein the first management agent is associated with a first managed application;
- performing by the first management agent with respect to the first managed application the at least one operation based at least in part on the management-related information;
- determining, at the first management agent based at least in part on the management-related information, that the second managed application is active on the mobile device and is a higher priority application;
- and
- transitioning the first management agent to an inactive state.
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A mobile device, comprising:
- a storage device;
- and
- a processor coupled to the storage device and configured to:
- retrieve on behalf of a first management agent of the mobile device from a storage location on the storage device, management-related information provided to the storage location by a second management agent of the mobile device upon interruption of at least one operation of a second managed application, wherein the management-related information at least includes management state information that indicates a current state of the at least one operation and wherein the first management agent is associated with a first managed application;
- perform with respect to the first managed application the at least one operation based at least in part on the management-related information
- determine, at the first management agent based at least in part on the management-related information, that the second managed application is active on the mobile device and is a higher priority application;
- and
- transition the first management agent to an inactive state.
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A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- retrieving, from a storage location of a mobile device by a first management agent of the mobile device, management-related information provided to the storage location by a second management agent of the mobile device upon interruption of at least one operation of a second managed application, wherein the management-related information at least includes management state information that indicates a current state of the at least one operation and wherein the first management agent is associated with a first manage application;
- performing by the first management agent with respect to the first managed application the at least one operation based at least in part on the management-related information;
- determining, at the first management agent based at least in part on the management-related information, that the second managed application is active on the mobile device and is a higher priority application;
- and
- transitioning the first management agent to an inactive state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.