Smarter Cleanup Utility for Mobile Devices

Smarter Cleanup Utility for Mobile Devices

Joe Winifred Rayen

Symantec Corporation

Abstract

A method of efficiently and selectively removing unwanted content from a mobile device is proposed. This publication proposes to white-list / blacklist all contents and then schedule a cleanup for the blacklisted items during the idle time of the phone.

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Smarter Cleanup Utility for Mobile Devices

Problem Statement

Cleaning up unwanted content (sms, mms, cache, history, etc.) on mobile devices is not efficient. For example, most systems require the user to initiate a total clean up which includes everything or manually delete each individual item. The clean up activity needs to be done regularly in order to keep the phone up to date. Therefore, the user is required to periodically invoke a 3rd party application to clean all the "unnecessary" data from the phone. Two shortcomings of the above procedure are 1) the application involves user intervention each time the data is cleaned; and 2) the application clears all the data irrespecti...