Patent ID: 9179316
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A wireless end-user device, comprising: a service monitor agent having a capability to monitor device location and generate device location data; a user interface to display device privacy user controls and accept user input, including controls and input to allow a device user to specify, for each of multiple applications on the device, whether or not that application is authorized by the device user to monitor device location; a policy control agent to store the user input with a plurality of user-specifiable location monitoring policy settings associated respectively with corresponding different applications of the multiple applications; and an application interface agent to apply application level access controls individually to executing instances of the multiple applications, the application level access controls including one or more controls to restrict or allow access by an executing instance of any selected one of the multiple applications to the device location data, based at least in part on a respective one of the location monitoring policy settings stored by the policy control agent and associated with the selected one of the multiple applications.