Patent ID: 9537894
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, allow the machine to perform a method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, user account credentials associated with an online user account; sending the user account credentials to a server; receiving, in response to sending the user account credentials to a server, a user profile associated with the user account; configuring an operating system session on the device based on the user profile; receiving an indication to terminate the operating system session; determining whether to save or erase the received user profile based on a configurable setting associated with the computing device; and erasing, upon termination of the operating system session and based on the configurable setting, the received user profile and data stored locally on the computing device during the operating system session.