Patent ID: 9208201
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: on a first computing device associated with a user account, receiving a running query from an application running on the first computing device; receiving a notification that data items satisfying the running query are available at a remote storage location, the notification including an identifier that can be used to identify a corresponding application that created the respective data item and to identify particular access permissions of that application, and the data items satisfying the running query having been contributed by a second computing device associated with the user account; based on the notification, determining that the application has permission to access a first data item of the data items satisfying the running query, according to one or more application specific access policies; determining that the application does not have permission to access a second data item of the data items satisfying the running query; presenting the first data item satisfying the running query to the application; and withholding presentation of the second data item to the application.