Patent ID: 8925076
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a computing device comprising a plurality of computing resources including computing hardware and an operating system executing on the computing hardware, and a plurality of applications interfaced with the computing resources, a method for rapid automatic re-adjustment of a security application to various application execution scenarios, the method comprising: storing a plurality of application execution scenario definitions for each of the plurality of applications, each application execution scenario definition representing a specific subset of functionality of a corresponding application, the specific subset of functionality being defined by corresponding operational settings of that application that cause specific operations to be performed in the computing device utilizing specific combinations of the computing resources; storing a plurality of sets of security application configuration instructions, each set of security application configuration instructions corresponding to at least one of the application execution scenario definitions; assessing, by the computing device, a current operational situation of the computing device, and determining if the current operational situation includes an application execution scenario being executed that corresponds to any of the stored plurality of application execution scenario definitions; in response to the determining, executing, by the computing device, a set of security application configuration instructions corresponding to each current application execution scenario being executed, such that in response to the executing of the security application configuration instructions, the security application is adjusted to perform a specific subset of security functionality that is particularized to the current at least one of the application execution scenarios.