Patent ID: 8510805

Claim:
A mobile device having a limited number of concurrently running processes, the mobile device including a trusted access monitoring system in a secure and trusted operation environment having Mandatory Access Control (MAC) capabilities for controlling access to one or more accessible components of a computing environment with the mobile device, wherein said access monitoring system is operable to: determine one or more accessible components of said mobile device that a first component may attempt to access, wherein said first component may attempt to access said one or more accessible components when said first component is operational on the mobile device; pre-process at least likely access permissions for the mobile device, including obtaining one or more access permissions based on a level of trust for said one or more accessible components, wherein said one or more access permissions effectively indicate whether said first component is allowed or not allowed to access said one or more accessible components; and store said one or more access permissions as pre-processed first one or more stored access permissions in a secure environment in kernel space of the mobile device in a manner that said first one or more access stored access permissions can be obtained if said first component attempts to access said one or more accessible components, thereby allowing access to said one or more accessible components to be controlled based on said stored access permissions.