Google Inc.

Vmware, Inc.

Airwatch LLC

Perry Hung

Harvey Tuch

Gadi Amit

Craig Farley Newell

Ara N Knaian

Susan Elizabeth McKinney

Paul Eremenko

Inbal Etgar

Seth O Newburg

David Fishman

Marisa Bober

Haim Tebeka

Dan Clifton

Elwin Ong

Matthew D Mottier

Marti Bolivar

In an example, a method of creating a secured workspace in a mobile device includes installing an application management agent on the mobile device, wherein the application management agent is configured to communicate with a remote server to obtain a security policy. The method further includes installing a wrapped enterprise application to the mobile device. The wrapped enterprise application includes code injected therein that, when executed by the mobile device, causes the mobile device to intercept at least a portion of instructions being executed by the wrapped enterprise application and to interpose alternative instructions that comply with the security policy. The method further includes communicating among the wrapped enterprise application, the application management agent, and other wrapped enterprise applications through pasteboard and uniform resource locator (URL) handlers provided by an operating system of the mobile device.

Secure inter-process communication and virtual workspaces on a mobile device

An electronic device includes a backplane including a set of slots configured to receive user-removable modules; a printed circuit board, coupled to the backplane; and a set of interface blocks, electrically connected to the printed circuit board, that enable power and data transfer between modules coupled to the set of interface blocks.

Modular devices and systems configured to receive a plurality of removable modules and to enable data transfer between the modules

Particular embodiments provide a method to authenticate a user of an application running on a mobile operating system (OS) installed on a mobile device, wherein the mobile OS invokes callback methods of the application upon making changes to an execution state of the application. Code embedded into the application causes the application to communicate with a management agent installed in the mobile OS upon invocation of a hooked callback method. Upon invocation of the hooked callback method, the embedded code assesses whether the user should be provided an authentication challenge prior to enabling the application to run in the foreground, and presents the authentication challenge if necessary. Finally, the embedded code returns execution control from the management agent back to the application wherein the application executes the at least one callback method prior to running in the foreground.

Method and system to impose enterprise security mechanisms throughout a mobile application lifecycle

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Perry Hung