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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:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2011
Applicants:

Vadim Draluk, Cupertino, CA (US);

Francois Goldfain, San Jose, CA (US);

Jan-willem Maarse, San Jose, CA (US);

Geng Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vadim Draluk, Cupertino, CA (US);

Francois Goldfain, San Jose, CA (US);

Jan-Willem Maarse, San Jose, CA (US);

Geng Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/468 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms are provided to allow devices to support multiple modes, such as work, personal, and family modes. Conventional mobile solutions provide only for mode distinctions at the application level, e.g. one work application may prevent access to certain data, but a different application may want to allow access to that same data. Existing computer system solutions rely on multiple operating system instances or multiple virtual machines. Framework level modes are provided that do not require different, mutually exclusive, or possibly conflicting applications or platforms. A device and associated applications may have access to different data and capabilities based on a current mode.


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