Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Controlling access to application data
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Application No.: US16055674Application Date: 2018-08-06
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Publication No.: US10733310B2Publication Date: 2020-08-04
- Inventor: Sean Michael Quinlan , Haniff Somani , Sanjiv Maurya , Peter Barker , Siavash James Joorabchian Hawkins
- Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
- Applicant Address: CA Ontario
- Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Ontario
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F21/62
- IPC: G06F21/62 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F21/60

Abstract:
A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for controlling access to application data associated with an application configured on a computing device. The method comprises: storing data comprising, for each of a plurality of access levels associated with the application, first data indicative of a combination of one or more credentials associated with the respective access level and an access level key corresponding to the respective access level, the access level key being encrypted by the combination of one or more credentials associated with the respective access level; determining, based on the first data, an access level in the plurality of access levels corresponding to a combination of one or more credentials available to the application; decrypting the access level key in the stored data corresponding to the determined access level; and providing access to encrypted application data associated with the application and corresponding to the determined access level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180373886A1 CONTROLLING ACCESS TO APPLICATION DATA Public/Granted day:2018-12-27
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