DEVICE SPECIFIC REMOTE DISABLING OF APPLICATIONS

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to allow a service provider supporting applications running on a client device to remotely disable the applications, features of the applications, or sessions of the applications running on the client device. The service providers may initiate the disable action automatically upon the detection of certain events on or through the client device without requiring user input. The disable action is specific for the client device. In one embodiment, the service provider collects information associated with the application and with the remote client device that runs the application to conduct one or more transactions with the service provider. The service provider determines from the collected information a feature set of the application to disable on the client device. The service provider disabling remotely the feature set of the application on the client device without affecting any other client devices that run the application.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining features of an application executing on a client device; determining system information for the client device and application information for the application, wherein the system information comprises hardware specifications of the client device and software specifications of an operating system of the client device; determining at least one of the features of the application using the system information, the application information, and a set of rules comprising non-conforming features of the application; and disabling remotely, by a service provider, the at least one of the features of the application on the client device when at least one of the system information and the application information meets the set of rules.