Remote data access permission using remote premises monitoring

摘要

One embodiment of a source device being able to monitor the premises of a target device before and after permission from the source device is granted to the target device for it to view a data which is currently inaccessible to the target device. The source device is also able to remotely and dynamically deny the target device access to the data after access has been granted, within a reasonable time of viewing an interesting image transmitted from the target device to the source device in correspondence to the premises monitoring process.

主权项

1. A method for remote data access permission control, the method requiring a target device to generate real-time visual information about its physical premises prior to obtaining access to data which would otherwise be inaccessible data, the method comprising:
processing a request from the target device to access the inaccessible data, capturing an image snapshot using an image capturing device of the target device, the image snapshot comprising a visual representation of the physical premises at the target device, wherein processing the request from the target device to access the inaccessible data and capturing the image snapshot using the image capturing device of the target device comprises:
engaging a proxy process on the target device; the proxy process engaging a hardware interface on the target device; the hardware interface engaging the image capturing device on the target device to capture the image snapshot; anddelivering the image snapshot to a proxy thread for transmission to the source device, transmitting the image snapshot to the source device, and displaying the image snapshot on the source device for visual review thereof by a user of the source device.