CLOUD BASED APPLICATION ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

• US 20140157378A1
• Filed: 11/30/2012
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Childs, Philip Lee, Vanover, Michael Terrell, Wibran, Goran Hans, Wang, Hui, Chen, Shaowei
• Granted Patent: US 9,413,770 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/6
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

An aspect provides a method, including: receiving at a remote device a client log in to a cloud based account issued from a client device; determining the client device is not associated with the client log in; issuing an instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential to the at least one client device application; and providing an instruction to unbind the cloud client log in credential from the at least one client device application in response to at least one predetermined criteria being satisfied. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving at a remote device a client log in to a cloud based account issued from a client device;

determining the client device is not associated with the client log in;

issuing an instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential to the at least one client device application; and

providing an instruction to unbind the cloud client log in credential from the at least one client device application in response to at least one predetermined criteria being satisfied.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one predetermined criteria is receipt of a client log out request at the remote device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one predetermined criteria is a time based validity threshold being exceeded.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to providing the instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential to the at least one client device application, determining if the at least one client device application log in credential is not associated with the client log in credential received at the remote device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the instruction to unbind the at least one client application log in credential is issued in response to a determination that the at least one client device application log in credential and the client log in credential received at the remote device are not associated with one another.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential is policy based.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one client device application log in credential to unbind is selected based on a policy.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the policy indicates that certain client device applications are not to be unbound by the instruction.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the certain client device applications that are not to be unbound comprise at least a cloud data synchronization application.

10. An information handling device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors that stores instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

receiving at a remote device a client log in to a cloud based account issued from a client device;

determining the client device is not associated with the client log in;

issuing an instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential to the at least one client device application; and

providing an instruction to unbind the cloud client log in credential from the at least one client device application in response to at least one predetermined criteria being satisfied.

11. The information handling device of claim 10, wherein the at least one predetermined criteria is receipt of a client log out request at the remote device.

12. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the at least one predetermined criteria is a time based validity threshold being exceeded.

13. The information handling device of claim 10, further comprising instructions for, prior to providing the instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential to the at least one client device application, determining if the at least one client device application log in credential is not associated with the client log in credential received at the remote device.

14. The information handling device of claim 13, wherein the instruction to unbind the at least one client application log in credential is issued in response to a determination that the at least one client device application log in credential and the client log in credential received at the remote device are not associated with one another.

15. The information handling device of claim 10, wherein the instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential is policy based.

16. The information handling device of claim 15, wherein the at least one client device application log in credential to unbind is selected based on a policy.

17. The information handling device of claim 16, wherein the policy indicates that certain client device applications are not to be unbound by the instruction.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the certain client device applications that are not to be unbound comprise at least a cloud data synchronization application.

19. The information handling device of claim 10, wherein the information handling device is a cloud computing device connected to the client device via a network connection.

20. A program product, comprising:

a storage medium having computer program code embodied therewith, the computer program code comprising;

computer program code configured to receive at a remote device a client log in to a cloud based account issued from a client device;

computer program code configured to determine the client device is not associated with the client log in;

computer program code configured to issue an instruction to unbind at least one client device application log in credential and bind a cloud client log in credential to the at least one client device application; and

computer program code configured to provide an instruction to unbind the cloud client log in credential from the at least one client device application in response to at least one predetermined criteria being satisfied.