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Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 23, 2015
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Richard Andrew Sims, Teddington, GB;

Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04W 8/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and computing device for enablement of a disabled profile or a third party application associated with the disabled profile on the device, the method including receiving, at an identity module on the device, a request to enable the disabled profile or the third party application; obtaining, from each profile on the device that is currently active, a respective policy; obtaining, from the disabled profile, a policy for the disabled profile; determining, based on the respective policies obtained from the active profiles and based on the policy for the disabled profile, whether the disabled profile or third party application can be enabled; and providing a response to the request to enable the disabled profile based on the determining.


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