International Business Machines Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Good Technology, Inc.

Good Technology Holdings Limited

Alex T Lau

Chun Fung Yuen

Joanna W Ng

Jin Li

Jimmy W Lo

Wing Young Lam

Richard Segal

Diana H Lau

Stephan F Jou

Namrata Jayant Bandekar

Mihir Kapadia

Yunan Zhao

A method of managing access to a plurality of applications capable of executing within a container provisioned on a computing device. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, at a first communications interface of the container, a first communication for execution by a first application in the plurality of applications capable of executing within the container, wherein the communication is received from an on-device process via a first communication pathway using an inter-process communication (IPC) framework provided by an operating system executing on the computing device; sending, from the first communications interface of the container, the communication to a second communications interface of the first application via a second communication pathway provided by the container, wherein the second communication pathway bypasses the IPC framework; receiving, at the first communications interface of the container, a response to the first communication from the second communications interface of the first application via the second communication pathway; and sending, the response from the first communications interface of the container to the on-device process via the first communication pathway.

Managing containerized applications

A method for managing a master password on a network device, the method stored as a set of instructions executable by a computer processor to: store the master password in a first file in a memory of the network device; store the master password in a second file in the memory of the network device; encrypt access to the first file using a first password; encrypt access to the second file using a second password; send the second password and an identifier associated with the network device over a communications network to a registration server, the registration server configured for storing the second password for subsequent retrieval by the network device; when the first password is unavailable, send a password retrieval request including the identifier; receive the second password configured as a one-time use password; decrypt access to the second file to retrieve the master password; and, initiate a reset process for subsequent storage of the master password in the memory of the network device.

Password retrieval system and method involving token usage without prior knowledge of the password

A system and method for confirming an application change event associated with a device infrastructure of a mobile device, the method comprising: identifying an application change event processed by the device infrastructure; disabling an application associated with the application change event; sending an application authorization request from the mobile device over a communications network, the application authorization request including application identification information which identifies the application associated with the application change event; receiving a decision instruction at the mobile device, the decision instruction being based on a comparison of the application identification information with one or more listed applications in a plurality of applications identified in an application authorization list, the application authorization list being remote from the mobile device over the communications network; and performing an action on the mobile device in respect of the application associated with the application change event, based on the decision instruction.

Centralized selective application approval for mobile devices

A method for managing application containers, comprising: assigning a first application to a master container in a memory of a system; assigning a second application to a slave container in the memory; using a processor, assigning the master and slave containers to a container group by: delegating access to container meta-data of the slave container by a container run-time of the slave container or by the first application to a container meta-data accessor of the master container via a class loader of the master container; and, delegating interaction between the container run-time of the slave container and a container management channel of the slave container to a container management channel of the master container via the class loader of the master container; and, accessing the first and second applications via the container group.

Method and system for managing and presenting multiple application containers as a single logical container

An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for predictive analytic queries includes creating a user-defined predictive analytics query using a set of syntactic grammar that defines a correct syntax of the user-defined predictive analytics query including a created set of predictive analytics by-example vocabularies and a set of subject-specific by-example vocabularies forming a set of by-example vocabularies, wherein the set of syntactic grammar defines semantics of each syntactically correct predictive analytics query using the by-example vocabularies such that predictive analytics queries can be expressed with semantic precision using this constrained Natural Language Processing (cNLP) approach. The computer-implemented method further generates a predictive analytic model and runtime query, using the user-defined predictive analytics query, executes the runtime query using the predictive analytic model to create a result, and returns the result to the user.

Predictive analysis by example

A method of on-device access using a container application to manage a sub application provisioned on a computer device by set of stored instructions executed by a computer processor to implement the steps of: receive a communication for the sub application by a first service programming interface (SPI) of the container application, the communication sent by a on-device process over a first communication pathway of a device infrastructure of the computer device utilizing interprocess communication (IPC) framework of the device infrastructure, the first communication pathway provided external to the first SPI; retransmit the communication by the first SPI to a second SPI of the sub application over a second communication pathway that bypasses the IPC framework, the second communication pathway internal to the first SPI; receiving a response to the communication by the first SPU from the second SPI over the second communication pathway; and directing the response to the on-device process over the first communication pathway.

Managing containerized applications on a mobile device while bypassing operating system implemented inter process communication

A system and method for confirming an application change event associated with a device infrastructure of a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: storing an application authorization list identifying a plurality of mobile applications, the application authorization list being remote from the mobile device over a communications network; receiving an application authorization request from the mobile device over the communications network, the application authorization request including application identification information; comparing the application identification information with one or more listed mobile applications of the plurality of mobile applications identified in the application authorization list; determining whether the application information matches any of the plurality of mobile applications to produce a decision instruction containing an authorization decision; and sending the decision instruction to the mobile device for subsequent processing of the decision instruction by a mobile agent associated with the device infrastructure; wherein processing of the decision instruction provides for confirmation of the application change event.

A universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions. A request is received from a user to begin an order. User information is collected from one or more data repositories. The user information is consolidated and a determination is made as to what additional data is required to complete the order. The additional data is requested from the user and is received from the user. The additional data includes one or more user conditions for placing the order. The order is then stored. The order for the product includes the one or more user conditions, and the order is placed only after all of the one or more user conditions have been met.

Universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions

A universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions. Initially a request is received from a user to begin an order. Upon receipt of the request, user information is collected from one or more data repositories. The user information is consolidated and a determination is made as to what additional data is required to complete the order. The additional data is requested from the user and is received from the user. The additional data includes one or more user conditions for placing the order. The order is then stored. The order for the product includes the one or more user conditions, and the order is placed only after all of the one or more user conditions have been met.

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