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System and method for application program operation on a wireless device

  • US 8,699,999 B2
  • Filed: 07/30/2012
  • Issued: 04/15/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing security features for a mobile device, wherein the method comprises:

  • providing a security management module with one or more security features;

    providing a connect module for updating the one or more security features;

    interfacing the connect module and the security management module with an operating system of the mobile device, by integrating application programming interfaces of the connect module with host environment application programming interfaces and providing security services to the mobile device via the application programming interfaces of the connect module to augment the behavior of the host environment application programming interfaces and the mobile device in order to affect the security capabilities of the operating system;

    providing access information to the security management module, the access information comprising information specifying whether applications on the mobile device can access a sensitive function of one of the host application programming interfaces; and

    when a given application being executed on the mobile device makes a function call to an application program interface that provides access to a sensitive function, allowing execution of the function call to the sensitive function when the access information indicates that function calls to the sensitive function by the given application are allowed, and otherwise not allowing execution of the function call to the sensitive function.

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