MECHANISMS FOR EXECUTING A COMPUTER PROGRAM

Title:

MECHANISMS FOR EXECUTING A COMPUTER PROGRAM

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO2006005812

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

An operating system (110) is arranged to provide system services to an application (102) requesting them, the services being selected from a predetermined system service group. The operating system comprises main memory allocation logic (128), mass memory allocation logic (122, 126), an application interface (112), via which the application program (102) can request system services from the operating system, and application installation and execution logic for installing the application (102) and for specifying its identifier. For preventing malicious programs, the inventive operating system comprises, instead of or in addition to a conventional user privilege administrator (114), an application privilege administrator (116) responsive to a request for a system service transmitted by the application (102) over the application interface (112). The application privilege administrator is arranged to administer the application (102, 20, 30) privilege group such that it includes the right to use a subgroup of said system service group.

Inventors:

NIEMINEN EERO (FI)

Application Number:

PCT/FI2005/050279

Publication Date:

April 13, 2006

Filing Date:

July 11, 2005

Export Citation:

Click for automatic bibliography generation Help

Assignee:

EJ SUUNNITTELU OY (FI)
NIEMINEN EERO (FI)

International Classes:

G06F9/46; G06F12/14; G06F21/60; G06F

Foreign References:

US20030009685A1	2003-01-09
US6101607A	2000-08-08
US5305456A	1994-04-19

Other References: