Policy-driven administration of mobile applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104875-B2
Application number	US-201213562938-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2012
Priority date	Apr 5, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Policy-driven administration of mobile applications includes receiving a policy defined by a client system. The policy is defined by rules configured for implementation by a scanner and a compliance definition indicative of a threshold acceptability value for output of the implementation of the scanner on a mobile application. The policy-driven administration also includes executing the scanner for the mobile application and identifying an association between a mobile device and the client system. The policy-driven administration of mobile applications further includes controlling access to the mobile application by the mobile device based on results of executing the scanner using the compliance definition.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A method, comprising:
implementing, at a computer processor, a registration process for a client system, the registration process including receiving a mobile device identifier for a mobile device from the client system and storing the mobile device identifier in a record created for the client system;
providing, by the computer processor, the client system, once registered, with an interface for creating a policy, the policy defined by rules configured for i…

Assignees

• Abuelsaad Tamer E
• Bodin William
• Jaramillo David
• Nassar Nader M
• IBM

Inventors

• Abuelsaad Tamer E
• Bodin William
• Jaramillo David
• Nassar Nader M

Classifications

• G06F21/57 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic