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US 9,794,975 B1Granted
Personal device management
AssigneeMobile Iron, Inc.
InventorsVenkata Narayana Porala, Madhu Vemuri
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Abstract
Peer-to-peer management of mobile devices is disclosed. In various embodiments, a message is received at a first mobile device indicating that a device management permission with respect to a second mobile device that is a peer of the first mobile device has been granted to a user associated with the first mobile device. The first mobile device is configured to be used to perform with respect to the second mobile device a device management action associated with the device management permission.
Claims20
A method of managing devices, comprising:
- receiving, at a first mobile device from a second mobile device that is a peer of the first mobile device a message indicating that a device management permission with respect to the second mobile device has been granted to a user associated with the first mobile device, wherein the first mobile device is configured to receive an input from the user associated with the first mobile device, wherein the input indicates whether the user associated with the first mobile device accepted or declined the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device;
- in response to the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device being accepted, configuring the first mobile device to be used to perform with respect to the second mobile device a device management action associated with the device management permission;
- and
- in response to the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device being declined, updating data associated with the first mobile device to reflect that the first mobile device declined the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device.
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A system to manage devices, comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
- receive via the communication interface, at a first mobile device, a message from a second mobile device that is a peer of the first mobile device indicating that a device management permission with respect to the second mobile device has been granted to a user associated with the first mobile device, wherein the first mobile device is configured to receive an input from the user associated with the first mobile device, wherein the input indicates whether the user associated with the first mobile device accepted or declined the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device;
- in response to the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device being accepted, configure the first mobile device to be used to perform with respect to the second mobile device a device management action associated with the device management permission;
- and
- in response to the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device being declined, update data associated with the first mobile device to reflect that the first mobile device declined the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device.
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A computer program product to manage devices, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- receiving at a first mobile device from a second mobile device that is a peer of the first mobile device a message indicating that a device management permission with respect to the second mobile device has been granted to a user associated with the first mobile device, wherein the first mobile device is configured to receive an input from the user associated with the first mobile device, wherein the input indicates whether the user associated with the first mobile device accepted or declined the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device;
- in response to the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device being accepted, configuring the first mobile device to be used to perform with respect to the second mobile device a device management action associated with the device management permission;
- and
- in response to the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device being declined, updating data associated with the first mobile device to reflect that the first mobile device declined the device management permission with respect to the second mobile device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.