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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
May. 06, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Kelly B. Yancey, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Richard J. Cooper, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard L. Hagy, Montara, CA (US);
Pierre-Olivier Martel, Mountain View, CA (US);
David P. Remahl, Woodside, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Zdziarski, Bethel, ME (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide techniques to limit programmatic access to privacy related user data and system resources for applications that execute outside of a sandbox or other restricted operating environment while enabling a user to grant additional access to those applications via prompts presented to the user via a graphical interface. In a further embodiment, techniques are applied to limit the frequency in which a user is prompted by learning the types of files or resources to which a user is likely to permit or deny access.