Patent ID: 8272034

Claim:
A method performed in a communication device, the method comprising the acts of: identifying a request from a client application module which is to be processed by a server application module through use of an operating system module on the communication device; and in response to identifying the request: causing one or more client process handles of a client stack of the client application module to be provided in a current process base of the operating system module which includes one or more server process handles of a server stack of the server application module, checking one or more permission settings associated with the one or more client process handles and one or more permission settings associated with the one or more server process handles, and denying further processing of the request if any one of the permission settings associated with the one or more client process handles or the one or more server process handles indicates that permission is denied; wherein the one or more client process handles identify current client modules or processes utilized by the client application module for processing, and the one or more server process handles identify current server modules or processes utilized by the server application module for processing.