Policy-based development and runtime control of mobile applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990883-B2
Application number	US-201313732729-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 2, 2013
Priority date	Jan 2, 2013
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

A method, process, and associated systems for policy-based development and runtime control of mobile applications. Security objects that describe or enforce security policies are embedded into the source code of an enhanced application while the application is being developed. When a user attempts to launch the enhanced application on a mobile device, the security objects are updated to match a latest valid version of the objects stored on an enterprise server. The security objects may be further updated at other times. Global security policies, which affect the entire enterprise and which may deny the application permission to launch, are enforced by a global security policy stored within one of the updated security objects. If the application does run, application-specific security policies contained in the updated security objects modify application behavior at runtime in order to enforce application-specific security policies.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of policy-based development and runtime control of mobile applications that comprises:
a processor of a computer system receiving a request to launch an enhanced application, wherein the enhanced application comprises an application policy descriptor, wherein the application policy descriptor describes a global policy and an API policy;
the processor requesting a latest valid policy descriptor from an enterprise server, wherein the latest valid po…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Kapoor Shalini
• Kodeswaran Palanivel A
• Kumar Udayan
• Nandakumar Vikrant

Classifications

• G06F21/51 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/6281

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/20 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic