Method for providing wireless application privilege management

• US 10,462,189 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Wallis, Kenneth John, Goring, Bryan Richard, Bibr, Viera, Vitanov, Kamen, Fritsch, Laura Brindusa, Shenfield, Michael, Rogers, Jeffrey Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Powers, William S
• Application Number:
  US15/395,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20170111400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,033 Days
• Field of Search: 726 1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/37 Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method for providing an administration policy to a user device comprising a plurality of applications, the method comprising centrally generating the administration policy to be implemented in the user device, the administration policy comprising at least one of an application administration policy to be used by at least one of the plurality of applications and a client administration policy for the user device; and providing the generated policy to the user device.

Claims

1. A method for generating administration policies at a server for implementation on a user device, the method comprising:

generating a client administration policy, wherein the client administration policy is to be used, on the user device, to provide management of the user device;

generating an application administration policy, the application administration policy to be used to provide management of at least one application executable by the user device; and

transmitting, to the user device;

the application administration policy; and

the client administration policy.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the client administration policy is to be used, on the user device, to manage the application container.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising basing the generating the client administration policy on type information.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of the at least one application.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of user.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising basing the generating the application administration policy on type information.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of the at least one application.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of user.

9. A server comprising:

a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor adapted to execute the computer-readable instructions to cause the processor to;

generate a client administration policy, wherein the client administration policy is to be used, on a user device, to provide management of a the user device;

generate an application administration policy, the application administration policy to be used to provide management of at least one application executable by the user device; and

transmit, to the user device;

the application administration policy; and

the client administration policy.

10. The server of claim 9 wherein the client administration policy is to be used, on the user device, to manage the application container.

11. The server of claim 9 wherein the computer-readable instructions further cause the processor to base the generating the client administration policy on type information.

12. The server of claim 11 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of application.

13. The server of claim 11 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of user.

14. The server of claim 9 wherein the computer-readable instructions further cause the processor to base the generating the application administration policy on type information.

15. The server of claim 14 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of application.

16. The server of claim 14 wherein the type information comprises information about a type of user.

17. A computer-readable memory containing instructions, the instructions, when executed by a processor of a server, cause the server to:

generate a client administration policy, wherein the client administration policy is to be used, on a user device, to provide management of a the user device;

generate an application administration policy, the application administration policy to be used to provide management of at least one application executable by the user device; and

transmit, to the user device;

the application administration policy; and

the client administration policy.