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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2011
Imad Aad, Preverenges, CH;
Debmalya Biswas, Lausanne, CH;
Gian Paolo Perrucci, Lausanne, CH;
Julien Eberle, Cugy, CH;
Imad Aad, Preverenges, CH;
Debmalya Biswas, Lausanne, CH;
Gian Paolo Perrucci, Lausanne, CH;
Julien Eberle, Cugy, CH;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus provide for operating a user interface of a device to receive from a user, for individual ones of a plurality of user privacy categories, a user privacy setting; to map each user privacy setting to one or more device sensors to form a sensor policy for the user privacy category; and to monitor application program accesses to device sensors to detect a violation of a sensor policy. An aspect of the exemplary embodiments of this invention is the user interface that can represent privacy levels of each application program to the user in a 'user-friendly' format. Another aspect of the exemplary embodiments is to provide the user device with an ability to detect and act on or at least report privacy violations by the application programs.