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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Appsense Limited, Warrington, GB;
Inventors:
Paul Keith Branton, Rochdale, GB;
Darren Robert Boyce, Cheshire, GB;
Assignee:
APPSENSE LIMITED, Warrington, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed subject matter provides apparatus, systems, and methods for preventing a user from disabling a software extension to a network-based application, thereby allowing a computing device to enforce the software extension even if the user wants to disable the software extension. The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods can prevent a user from disabling a software extension by blocking an access to a communications network via the network-based application when the software extension is disabled.