US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 28 for "Application groups for enforcing data transfer controls" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,971, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Application groups for enforcing data transfer controls" was invented by Philippe Leblanc (McMasterville, Canada), Kiran Nair (San Jose, Calif.) and Anthony Vallee-Dubois (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method may include obtaining data loss prevention (DLP) restriction data, the DLP restriction data identifying a group resource identifier and a restriction to a computer function of a computing device associated with an organization, detecting a data transfer event for transferring data from a first application to a second ...