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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jin-Hyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyeon-Jin Kang, Seoul, KR;
Yong-Seok Park, Seoul, KR;
Kang-Jin Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Jin-Ho Lee, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and a User Equipment (UE) for controlling access to location information about the UE are provided. The UE includes a controller configured, upon sensing access to the location information about the UE by an application operating in an operating system (OS) of the UE, to match a rule defining access authorization of the application to the location information, and to determine whether to allow or deny access of the application to the location information based on the access authorization, and a display configured to display a screen under control of the controller.