Method and system to automatically update a configuration scheme

• US 8,200,953 B1
• Filed: 01/07/2009
• Issued: 06/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Parsons, Vincent
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nitin
• Application Number:
  US12/350,097
• Time in Patent Office: 1,252 Days
• Field of Search: 713/1, 713/2, 713/100
• US Class Current: 713/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/57 Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates or assessing vulnerabilities

Abstract

A system to automatically update configuration settings based on activities of a user monitored while a training mode is activated is provided. The system may reside at a computer system hosting a computing application and may include a monitoring module and a configuration update module. The monitoring module may be configured to monitor operations or events that invoke a configuration scheme, such as, e.g., a security configuration scheme. The configuration update module may be configured to update the configuration scheme based on monitored operations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

using one or more processors to perform operations of;

monitoring one or more operations that override a restriction in a security configuration scheme, the security configuration scheme being stored at a computer system; and

automatically updating the security configuration scheme based on the one or more monitored operations.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising triggering a training mode, wherein the monitoring is in response to the triggering of the training mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the triggering of the training mode comprises receiving a request from a user in response to a user interface being presented to the user, the user interface to provide information about automatically updating the security configuration scheme.

4. The method of claim 2, comprising deactivating the training mode, wherein the updating of the security configuration scheme is in response to the deactivating of the training mode.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising generating a training log of the monitored operations, wherein the updating of the security configuration scheme is based on the training log.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

detecting an operation that triggers a security restriction associated with the security configuration scheme;

overriding the security restriction;

recording, in a training log, context information associated with the overriding of the security restriction,

wherein the updating of the security configuration scheme comprises updating the security configuration scheme based on data recorded in the training log.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the security configuration scheme is associated with security settings for a document viewing application.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the document viewing application is to present electronic documents in a portable document format (PDF).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the monitoring of operations that invoke the security configuration scheme is to be performed on a first physical computing device; and

the updating of the security configuration scheme is to be performed on a second physical computing device.

10. A method comprising:

executing instructions on a specific apparatus that result in digital electronic signal implementation of a process in which one or more operations that override a restriction in a security configuration scheme are monitored, the security configuration scheme being represented by digital electronic signals and stored in a memory location of said specific apparatus; and

executing instructions on a specific apparatus that result in updating the security configuration scheme based on the one or more monitored operations.

11. A computer-implemented system comprising:

a monitoring module to monitor one or more operations that override a restriction in a security configuration scheme, the security configuration scheme being stored at a computer system; and

a configuration update module to update the security configuration scheme based on the one or more monitored operations.

12. The system of claim 11, comprising a training mode trigger to activate a training mode, wherein the monitoring module is to monitor operations that invoke a security configuration scheme while the training mode is activated.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the training mode trigger is to receive a request from a user in response to a user interface being presented to the user, the user interface to provide information about automatically updating the security configuration scheme.

14. The system of claim 12, comprising a training mode deactivator to deactivate the training mode, wherein the configuration update module is to update the security configuration scheme in response to the deactivating of the training mode.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the monitoring module is to generate a training log of the monitored operations; and

the configuration update module is to update the security configuration scheme based on the training log.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the monitoring module is to;

detect an operation that triggers a security restriction associated with the security configuration scheme,

override the security restriction, and

record, in a training log, context information associated with the overriding of the security restriction of the overriding of the security restriction in a training log; and

the configuration update module is to update the security configuration scheme based on data recorded in the training log.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the context comprises location of an electronic document that requests the overriding of the security restriction.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the security configuration scheme is associated with security settings for a document viewing application.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the document viewing application is to present electronic documents in a portable document format (PDF).

20. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data to cause a machine to:

monitor one or more operations that override a restriction in a security configuration scheme, the security configuration scheme being stored at a computer system; and

update the security configuration scheme based on the one or more monitored operations.