Patent ID: 9147085
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of establishing plural modes of operation on a mobile device, the method comprising: associating each application on the mobile device with one of a plurality of modes; and restricting data on the mobile device to be accessible by only a subset of applications based on the mode associated with the application, wherein the data is associated with one of the plurality of modes and the restricting comprises adding a group permission to the data and providing each application with access to the data based on the group permission, the group permission for data associated with one of the plurality of modes controls access to the data by applications associated with the others of the plurality of modes, and the group permission for the data limits the ability to copy a subset of the data between modes, where some data can be copied directly between modes, and wherein data associated with the first mode is deleted from the mobile device when such data is not accessed within a time period, while data associated with the second mode does not have a deletion policy.