System and Method of Secure Garbage Collection on a Mobile Device

Patent №

US 8,973,148

Granted

2015-03-03

Filed 2012

Owner

RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13556959

A method and system for performing garbage collection involving sensitive information on a mobile device. Secure information is received at a mobile device over a wireless network. The sensitive information is extracted from the secure information. A software program operating on the mobile device uses an object to access the sensitive information. Secure garbage collection is performed upon the object after the object becomes unreachable.

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Ownership

RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED

assignment · 287740016

Assignors

LITTLE, HERBERT A., ADAMS, NEIL P., JANHUNEN, STEFAN E., DAHMS, JOHN F.A.

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