User interface for secure virtual document management system

• US 9,122,887 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2013
• Issued: 09/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ivanti, Inc. (Ivanti Software, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MobileIron, Inc.
• Inventors: Drewry, John, Sharma, Rahul, Cribb, Gary, Ashwin, Pronob
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehedi, Morshed
• Application Number:
  US14/076,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20140230011A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 726/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/188 Virtual file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0435 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply symmetric encryption, i.e. same key used for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for symmetric key encryption H04L9/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227

Abstract

A user interface for a virtual file management system that provides user access to managed content on mobile devices. The system comprises storage domains storing the managed content distributively using file systems, and a data infrastructure that organizes the managed content into a virtual file system. The data infrastructure includes a component that maintains policies defining controls for permissible operations on the managed content, the permissible operations including the file system primitives. A client application including a user interface is hosted on the mobile devices and is coupled to the data infrastructure and the storage domains and includes an enforcement component that retrieves and enforces the policies by applying the controls on the mobile devices.

Claims

1. A virtual file management system (VFMS) providing a user access to managed content on one or more mobile devices, the system comprising:

a plurality of storage domains that store the managed content distributively on one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums using one or more file systems;

at least one server hosting a data infrastructure that organizes the managed content into a virtual file system, wherein the data infrastructure comprises a component that generates and maintains policies defining controls for permissible operations on the managed content with respect to the user on the one or more mobile devices; and

a client application hosted on the one or more mobile devices, wherein the client application is stored on one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums associated with the one or more mobile devices and is executable by one or more processors,

wherein the client application comprises a user interface, wherein the client application is coupled to the data infrastructure and the plurality of storage domains and includes an enforcement component that retrieves and enforces the policies by applying the controls on the one or more mobile devices,

wherein the client application retrieves information of the virtual file system and provides access to the managed content by processing data requests using permissible operations, wherein the client application exposes the permissible operations and the information of the virtual file system to one or more mobile applications that run on the one or more mobile devices and provides the access to the managed content through the user interfaces, and

wherein the client application accesses the managed content stored on one or more of the plurality of storage domains such that a corresponding access operation is transmitted from the one or more mobile devices directly to the one or more of the plurality of storage domains.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface displays a plurality of icons respectively associated with one of the one or more file system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the client application includes a search feature for performing a global search across a plurality of the one or more file systems.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the client application manages one or more policies received from the at least one server.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the client application manages the one or more policies received from the at least one server such that, in response to an input from a user, the client application displays a list of current policies configured for the user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the corresponding access operation transmitted from the one or more mobile devices directly to the one or more of the plurality of storage domains is transmitted such that the corresponding access operation is not intercepted by the at least one server.