PROVIDING ACCESS CONTROL OF APPLICATIONS ON COMPUTING DEVICE BY ESTABLISHING SCREEN PASSCODES THAT ALLOW ACCESS TO DESIGNATED SCREENS WITH DESIGNATED APPLICATIONS

摘要

A method, computing device and computer program product for providing access control of applications on the computing device. The computing device receives a selection of a set of one or more screens from the owner of the mobile device. The computing device further receives a selection of application(s) to be placed in the selected set of screens. The computing device additionally receives a screen passcode to be assigned to the selected set of screens. The computing device then assigns the received screen passcode to the selected set of screens which enables access to the application(s) on the selected set of screens. In this manner, the owner of the computing device can limit other users' access to certain applications on the computing device by segregating the applications on different sets of screens, where each set of screens is assigned a screen passcode which grants access to that set of screens.