Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aimin Pan

Bin Benjamin Zhu

Rui Guo

Kaimin Zhang

Min Feng

Shipeng Li

Josh D Benaloh

Zheng Zhang

Yuan Kong

Nathan C Sherman

Shiding Lin

Hui Fan

Hai Long

A component-oriented web mashup system and method for communicating between component-oriented Web gadgets to facilitate secure Web mashups. Embodiments of the system and method redefine the traditional definition of gadget to mean a Web component having a verifiable controlled communication channel (a CompoWeb gadget). A CompoWeb gadget is created and defined using new HTML tags and global script objects and functions that extend the functions of the browser. CompoWeb gadget content is treated as a component that is isolated from other gadgets and frames by a browser, and only those allowed access can view data and code therein. Called functions of a CompoWeb gadget are run in the callee's environment instead of the caller's environment. This adds security, because all the requesting CompoWeb gadget receives is the run result. Embodiments of the system and method also include delayed binding of CompoWeb gadgets, such that binding is performed at run time.

Component-oriented architecture for web mashups

A method for disassembling an executable binary (binary). In one implementation, a plurality of potential address references may be identified based on the binary and a plurality of storage addresses containing the binary. A plurality of assembler source code instructions (instructions) may be generated by disassembling the binary. The binary may be disassembled at one or more sequential addresses starting at each of the plurality of potential address references.

Disassembling an executable binary

A cooperative rendering cache browser (CRC-Browser) for a mobile device may cooperatively manage cached content with a proxy server to reduce redundant transmissions of processed Web data. Additionally, the CRC-Browser may provide stateful, thin-client Web browsing to maintain synchronized information about rendering objects of a Web page. Further, the CRC-Browser may cache only stable and/or visible document object model (DOM) elements and communicate a list of IDs of the cached elements to the proxy. Such stateful thin-client browsers may be useful for reducing battery drain, poor responsiveness, and high wireless network costs of mobile Web browsing.

Cooperative rendering cache for mobile browser

A security-enhanced login technique that provides a convenient and easy-to-use two factor technique to enhance the security of passwords without requiring any changes on the server side of a client-server network. The technique employs a convenient and easy-to-use two-factor technique to generate strong passwords for Web and other applications. In this technique, a convenient or personal device such as a mouse is used as the other factor besides a user password. A secret stored in the mouse or other personal device is hashed together with the password entered by a user and the server ID, to generate a strong, server-specific password which is used to authenticate the user to the server. This password enhancement operation is carried out inside the personal device.

Security-enhanced log in

A cross-module detection system and method for detecting and monitoring control flow transfers between software modules in a computer system. The system and method detect and monitor control flows entering and exiting the software modules. For a particular module, a checking model is extracted from the binary file of that module. In addition, a relaxed shadow stack is generated. If the module is an original module, meaning that the control flow originated from that module, then the checking model is used to check the validity of the control flow transfer. Otherwise, the relaxed shadow stack is used. An interception module is used to intercept and terminate invalid control flow transfers. If an invalid control flow transfer is detected, then the transfer is terminated. Otherwise, the control flow transfer is allowed to continue.

Secure control flows by monitoring control transfers

Distributed system simulation is enhanced by extending the simulation window. In a described implementation, the simulation window extension is facilitated with a slow message relaxation scheme. For example, especially when the simulation window is extended, slow unscheduled events can arrive at a logical process with a timestamp that is prior to (e.g., less than) the local time of a receiving logical process that is participating in a simulation. To ameliorate issues created by a slow unscheduled message and its corresponding slow unscheduled event, a current logical time of the receiving logical process is substituted for the original timestamp of the slow unscheduled event to transform it into a punctual unscheduled event.

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