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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2010
Brian Martin, Moraga, CA (US);
Joseph Augst, Alameda, CA (US);
Jesse Myers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Hodes, Emeryville, CA (US);
Scott Hotes, Berkeley, CA (US);
Brian Martin, Moraga, CA (US);
Joseph Augst, Alameda, CA (US);
Jesse Myers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Hodes, Emeryville, CA (US);
Scott Hotes, Berkeley, CA (US);
WaveMarket, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing third party application program access to user information via a particular native application program interface (API) is provided. The method includes providing a wrapped native API including a wrapper library and inspecting a third party application program for the presence of the wrapper library in an unmodified form. The application program is inspected to identify API calls. An identified API call to a circumventing API is instrumented by wrapping the circumventing API to generate a wrapped non-circumventing API and modifying the third party application program to redirect the identified API call from the circumventing API to the wrapped non-circumventing API. A request for a permission to access user information is received from the third party application program via the wrapper library executed on a user device. An authorization is received to provide the permission to access the user information, and the permission to access the user information is provided to the executed third party application program.