Citrix Systems, Inc.

Gary Lee Barton

Zhongmin Lang

James Robert Walker

Nitin Desai

Georgy Momchilov

Richard Hayton

Andrew Innes

Vipin Aravindakshan

Ricardo Fernando Feijoo

Sameer Mehta

Jason Knight

Brandon Olekas

Richardo Fernando Feijoo

A method and system for managing an application with multiple modes are described. A device manager that manages a mobile device may monitor the mobile device. The device manager may detect that a first type of application that runs in a managed mode (or in multiple managed modes) and an unmanaged mode is installed on the mobile device. When the application is executed on the device, the application executes in accordance with the selected application mode, e.g., based on location, user, role, industry presence, or other predefined context.

Data management for an application with multiple operation modes

Methods and systems for customizing applications in enterprise mobility management systems are described herein. A client agent software application on a mobile device may be customized to embed or make available enterprise server URLs, a session cookie for authentication, and various other data during the device enrollment process. The customization of the client agent may be based on the device, user, and/or enrollment session. After the device is enrolled in the enterprise system, the embedded data may be accessed by the client agent application to support seamless single-sign-on during first-time use. Additional customized applications based on device, user, and/or enrollment session, may be generated and provided to mobile devices during or after device enrollment. Customized applications may be based on application templates, such as packaged web applications or specific implementations of hosted applications.

Application customization

Methods and systems for developing, modifying, and distributing software applications for enterprise systems are described herein. A software component, such as a native mobile application or a template application, may be modified into a managed mobile application, and metadata associated with the managed mobile application may be generated. The managed application and associated metadata may be provided to one or more application stores, such as public application stores and/or enterprise application stores. Managed applications and/or associated metadata may be retrieved by computing devices from public application stores and/or enterprise application stores, and may be executed as managed applications in an enterprise system.

Application wrapping for application management framework

A method and system for operating an application with multiple modes are described. A plurality of applications may be presented to a user on a mobile device and one of the displayed applications may be selected. The selected application may have one or more contexts that are determined based on one or more operational parameters. For example, a context for the selected application may be that the application is configured to access an enterprise account. Based on the context, the selected application may be run on the mobile device in one of a plurality of operations modes. The operation modes may comprise managed, unmanaged, and partially managed modes, among others.

Application with multiple operation modes

Methods and systems are disclosed for providing approaches to generating managed applications from unmanaged applications on a mobile device. The methods and systems may include storing, by a mobile device in a memory of the mobile device, one or more unmanaged applications each comprising a corresponding application bundle and decoding, by the mobile device, the retrieved application bundle corresponding to the first unmanaged application. The methods and systems may also include modifying, by the mobile device, the decoded application bundle corresponding to the first unmanaged application by adding a set of one or more policy-based control instructions, compiling, by the mobile device, the modified application bundle to generate a first managed application, the first managed application being configured to operate in accordance with the set of one or more policy-based control instructions, and providing, by the mobile device, the first managed application.

Wrapping unmanaged applications on a mobile device

Methods and systems for communicating information between mobile applications are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may determine that a plurality of applications are running on the mobile device. The mobile device may determine that each application of the plurality of applications uses a shared passcode to encrypt information about a persistent state. The mobile device may generate a beacon that includes encrypted state information. The mobile device may maintain state information across the plurality of applications beyond the lifetime of any one of the plurality of applications by transmitting the beacon from a first application to a second application before the first application's lifetime is completed.

Facilitating communication between mobile applications

Methods and systems are disclosed for providing approaches to anonymous application wrapping on a mobile device. The methods and systems may include receiving, by a controller service, a request to associate a first application executing on a client device with the controller service, and obtaining, by the controller service, a first application identifier associated with the first application. The methods and systems may also include receiving, by the controller service from an application service, a request for a first service and a conditional application identifier, and configuring, by the controller service and based on the request for the first service, the first application with a second set of one or more policy instructions used to control the first application.

Anonymous application wrapping

Aspects described herein relate to controlling incoming data processing requests or messages and whether the incoming data processing requests are allowed to reach destination applications unmodified. The destination application may be a secure application operating within a secure application wrapper, and the secure application wrapper may determine whether and how much of the request or message is allowed to pass into a managed partition or through the secure application wrapper to reach the secure application for processing.

Controlling incoming data processing requests

Methods and systems for preventing clock rollback attacks are described herein. A rollback attack may occur when a user manually sets a system clock to a date/time earlier than the actual present day date and time, thereby tricking any software relying on the system clock to believe it is in fact the earlier date and time rather than the current date and time. According to aspects described herein, a particular application may check and store a record of the system time when an application goes inactive (or at intervals) and again when the application subsequently is activated again. When the application determines that the time has gone backward, the application (or system) may take some remedial measure(s) to prevent further use of the application (or system) until the user reestablishes trust (e.g., by reauthenticating or reestablishing a connection with a trusted time server).

Clock rollback security

Various aspects of the disclosure relate to providing a per-application policy-controlled virtual private network (VPN) tunnel. In some embodiments, tickets may be used to provide access to an enterprise resource without separate authentication of the application and, in some instances, can be used in such a manner as to provide a seamless experience to the user when reestablishing a per-application policy controlled VPN tunnel during the lifetime of the ticket. Additional aspects relate to an access gateway providing updated policy information and tickets to a mobile device. Other aspects relate to selectively wiping the tickets from a secure container of the mobile device. Yet further aspects relate to operating applications in multiple modes, such as a managed mode and an unmanaged mode, and providing authentication-related services based on one or more of the above aspects.

Providing virtualized private network tunnels

Various aspects of the disclosure relate to providing secure containers or data vaults for data of one or more managed applications. In some embodiments, each managed application may be assigned its own private data vault and/or may be assigned a shared data vault that is accessible to at least one other managed application. As the managed application executes, calls for access to the data may be intercepted and redirected to the secure containers. Data stored in a secure container may be encrypted according to a policy. Other aspects relate to deleting data from a secure container, such as via a selective wipe of data associated with a managed application. Further aspects relate to configuring and creating the secure containers, retrieving key information required to encrypt/decrypt the data stored in the secure containers, and publishing the managed applications, policy information and key information for download to a mobile device.

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Gary Lee Barton