Nokia Assigned Patent
Transforming application access and storage details to privacy policies
By Francis Pelletier | April 29, 2016 at 2:33 pmNokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, Finland, has been assigned a patent (9,294,364) developed by Biswas, Debmalya, Lausanne, Switzerland, for a “method and apparatus for transforming application access and data storage details to privacy policies .”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An approach is provided for transforming application access and data storage details associated with a mobile device to application specific privacy policies. A policy platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of an application code to identify one or more application programming interfaces invoked by the application code. The policy platform causes, at least in part, a profiling of one or more invocation characteristics of the one or more application programming interfaces. The policy platform further causes, at least in part, a mapping of the one or more invocation characteristics against one or more policy templates to cause, at least in part, a generation of at least one policy for the application code.“
The patent application was filed on November 1, 2013 (14/069,912).