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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Kenneth Brown, Fergus, CA;
Andrew Douglas Bocking, Conestogo, CA;
Scott William Totzke, Waterloo, CA;
David Francis Tapuska, Waterloo, CA;
Ronald Scotte Zinn, Waterloo, CA;
Maxime Matton, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA;
Michael Thomas Hardy, Waterloo, CA;
George Dos Santos, Waterloo, CA;
Christopher James Runstedler, Cambridge, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A method and devices for providing secure data backup from a mobile communication device to an external computing device is described. In one embodiment, there is provided a method of backing up data from a mobile communication device, the method comprising: receiving from an enterprise server an information technology (IT) policy message which includes an encryption key; storing the encryption key in a protected memory of the mobile communication device; receiving a request to backup data stored on the mobile communication device; encrypting the data using the encryption key stored in the protected memory; and transferring the encrypted data from the mobile communication device to an electronic device for storage.