US 11,868,451 B2
On-demand application permissions
Alejo Grigera, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/643,431.
Application 17/643,431 is a continuation of application No. 16/835,151, filed on Mar. 30, 2020, granted, now 11,216,537.
Application 16/835,151 is a continuation of application No. 15/919,006, filed on Mar. 12, 2018, granted, now 10,628,563, issued on Apr. 21, 2020.
Application 15/919,006 is a continuation of application No. 14/267,793, filed on May 1, 2014, granted, now 9,946,856, issued on Apr. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100826 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/30 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/30 (2013.01) [G06F 21/629 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
executing an application on a user device, the application comprising a feature based function requiring access to a feature resource of the user device when the application uses the feature based function;
during execution of the application on the user device, determining that the application requires use of the feature based function;
based on determining that the application requires use of the feature based function, requesting permission for the application to access the feature resource of the user device to use the feature based function, the permission request comprising a usage description of the feature resource by the feature based function, the usage description comprising at least one of a use for accessing the feature resource or a condition under which the feature resource is accessed;
in response to determining that the permission for the application to access the feature resource of the user device is granted by a user of the user device, allowing the application to access to the feature resource of the user device;
in response to determining that the permission for the application to access the feature resource of the user device is denied by the user, denying the application from accessing the feature resource of the user device; and
in response to determining that the permission for the application to access the feature resource of the user device is a deferred permission designated by the user, not storing the permission for the application for a future access of the feature resource, wherein the deferred permission requires the feature resource to be requested a next time a function of the application attempts to access the feature resource.