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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:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2014
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Neil Patrick Adams, Waterloo, CA;

Sean Alexander Courtney, Hamilton, CA;

Alexander Truskovsky, Waterloo, CA;

Assignee:

BLACKBERRY LIMITED, Waterloo, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2149 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and devices for controlling system settings of a computing device are described herein. One example embodiment comprises: determining configuration data associated with a software application, wherein the configuration data identifies one or more new system settings to be temporarily enforced on the computing device during an execution of the software application, and wherein the configuration data is digitally signed; and in response to an initiation of the execution of the software application, reconfiguring system settings on the computing device; wherein the reconfiguring comprises verifying at least one digital signature associated with the digitally signed configuration data; wherein if the at least one digital signature associated with the digitally signed configuration data successfully verifies, then the reconfiguring further comprises temporarily enforcing new system settings for the duration of the execution of the software application.


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