Abstract: The present invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution by providing systems and methods that test an application to ensure that it satisfies predetermined criteria associated with the environment in which it will execute. Furthermore, by using rules and permission lists, application removal, and a modification detection technique, such as digital signatures, the present invention provides mechanisms to safely distribute and execute tested, or untested, applications by determining whether the application has been modified, determining if it has permission to execute in a given wireless device environment, and removing the application should it be desirable to do so.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 28, 2006
Date of Patent:
March 23, 2010
Assignee:
Qualcomm Incorporated
Inventors:
Laurence Lundblade, Marc S. Phillips, Brian Minear, Yan Zhuang, Anand Krishnan, Stephen A Sprigg, Mazen Chmaytelli, Mitchell B. Oliver, Gerald Charles Horel, Karen Crossland