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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew S. Terry, San Jose, CA (US);
Kelly B. Yancey, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pierre-Olivier J. Martel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard L. Hagy, Montara, CA (US);
Timothy P. Hannon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alastair K. Fettes, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a device having multiple users. The method identifies a process installed on the device that requires an isolated storage in a file system of the device. For each of a set of the users of the electronic device, the method assigns at least one container for use by the process within a user-specific section of the file system. The containers assigned to the process in a section of the file system specific to a particular user are only accessible by the process when the particular user is logged into the device. The method assigns at least one container for use by the process within a non-user-specific section of the file system. The containers assigned to the process within the non-user-specific section of the file system are accessible by the process irrespective of which user is logged into the device.