OSLabs Assigned Patent

OSLabs PTE. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (10,409,971) developed by Saluja, Preeti, Bangalore, India, Dongre, Akash, Nagpur, India, and Bangarambandi, Sudhir, Mumbai, India, for “system and method for secretive storage of applications in portable computing device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The embodiments herein provide a system and method for an authentication-driven secret installation and access to applications and data on handheld computing devices. The secret storage is installed and accessed by a directly installed application or a host application on the device. The system comprises an authentication module for authenticating a user to access a data stored in the secret storage area, and a security module for detecting an intrusion of user’s privacy during an accessing of the secret storage area. The authentication module automatically shuts down the application when a privacy intrusion is detected continuously for a preset period of time. A secret storage application is run to create a clone of one or more applications installed outside the secret storage area while the created clone of the one or more applications are stored in the secret storage area.”

The patent application was filed on June 10, 2016 (15/179,106).