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Context-aware permission control of hybrid mobile applications

  • US 9,275,221 B2
  • Filed: 05/01/2013
  • Issued: 03/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2013
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for controlling access to secure resources of a data processing system that includes a processor unit, the method comprising:

  • removing, by the data processing system, all direct application programming interface calls by an application install on the data processing system to the secure resources of the data processing system;

    requiring, by the data processing system, the application accessing the secure resources of the data processing system to utilize a set of custom information flow control application programming interfaces located in an information flow control module of the data processing system to call the secure resources;

    generating, by the data processing system, an input-to-output mapping of the application installed on the data processing system that determines whether a secure resource of the secure resources in the data processing system is shared with an external entity associated with the application and under what specified conditions;

    determining, by the data processing system, whether the specified conditions exist during runtime of the application;

    responsive to the data processing system determining that the specified conditions do not exist during runtime of the application, preventing, by the data processing system, sharing of the secure resource of the data processing system with the external entity associated with the application; and

    responsive to the data processing system determining that the specified conditions do exist during runtime of the application, allowing, by the data processing system, sharing of the secure resource of the data processing system with the external entity associated with the application.

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