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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2011
Applicants:

Michael Anthony Carrara, Ottawa, CA;

Daniel Jonas Major, Ottawa, CA;

Neil Patrick Adams, Kitchener, CA;

Dinah Lea Marie Davis, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Michael Anthony Carrara, Ottawa, CA;

Daniel Jonas Major, Ottawa, CA;

Neil Patrick Adams, Kitchener, CA;

Dinah Lea Marie Davis, Waterloo, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and devices for managing permission requests to allow access to a computing resource are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, the method comprises: for an application to be installed on the computing device, determining an application category that the application is associated with, and retrieving a common permissions list for the application category, wherein the common permissions list identifies at least one computing resource that applications associated with the application category are configured to access; during an installation of the application on the computing device, determining one or more computing resources on the computing device that the application is configured to access when the application is executed on the computing device; determining which computing resources, of the one or more computing resources on the computing device that the application is configured to access when the application is executed on the computing device, are not identified in the common permissions list; and for each computing resource that the application is configured to access when the application is executed on the computing device that is not identified in the common permissions list, providing, in a user interface of the computing device, a permission request to allow the application to access the computing resource.


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