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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
May. 15, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Blaine H. Dolph, Western Springs, IL (US);
Miku K. Jha, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep R. Patil, Pune, IN;
Riyazahamad M. Shiraguppi, Pune, IN;
Gandhi Sivakumar, Bentleigh, AU;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided for protecting data owned by an operating system on a mobile computing device having multiple operating systems. A map specifying protected data regions for the operating systems on the mobile computing device is generated. At least a portion of the map is secured with a shared key. Based on the map and the shared key, and in response to a data cleanup activity being performed by a software utility being executed on another, currently running operating system included in the multiple operating systems, a data region included in the protected data regions is determined to be owned by the operating system. Based on the data region being owned by the operating system and the data region being specified by the map, the data cleanup activity is blocked from being performed on the data region owned by the operating system.