Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brian L Trenbeath

Aaron Hartwell

Ronald Eric Gray

Stephen Thomas Wells

William J Bliss

Robert C J Pengelly

Roger H Wynn

Siunie A Sutjahjo

Peter M Wiest

David A Raissipour

Aaron L Culbreth

Stan Dale Pennington

Keumars A Ahdieh, Ii

Kendall D Keil

David R Dozier

Kevin J Braun

Vilayanur Parameswaran Krishnan

Henrieta Slugenova

Liza Cardenas

Eric N Huber

Mechanisms are disclosed for detecting protocols independently of the ports used by streams associated with the protocols or applications that may send out such streams. The detecting may entail using a content filter that is hosted on a networking stack, where the content filter may be composed of a stream buffer and handlers for detecting the protocols. The handlers may be further used to modify streams incoming to a port or streams outgoing from an application. The handlers can modify the streams in a variety of ways, including reading, inserting, replacing, deleting, and completing data in the streams according to some policy criteria, such as those set by parental controls. Individual handlers may be selected from a plurality or set of handlers so that they can be matched up to the appropriate streams.

Protocol-level filtering

A method and apparatus are provided for synchronizing records stored at a first computer with records stored at a second computer. If properties of the first record have been modified, a determination is made as to whether all of the modified properties may be ignored. If all of the properties are not ignorable, a determination is made as to whether the values of all non-ignorable properties are identical between the first and second records. If the values are identical, the modifications to the properties of the first record are discarded. If the values are not identical, a determination is made as to whether the modified properties are decidable. If the properties are decidable, a value is selected from either the value stored in the first record or the second record, and utilized as the selected value of the modified property for the first and second records.

Method and apparatus for record synchronization with conflict resolution

It may be determined whether text of an electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text. If the text of the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text, the text may be converted to a plain text format for displaying. If the text of the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text format and the electronic mail message contains a digital signature, converting the text of the electronic mail message to plain text including breaking the digital signature. Also, a message may be provided to a user to indicates that the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text format, immediate display of the electronic mail message may be prevented, and an option of viewing the text of the electronic mail message in a non-plain text format or a plain text format may be provided.

Method for reading electronic mail in plain text

A method and computer program product instituting an entirely client-based system for sharing messages and other data objects is provided. Communication between clients occurs over a generic store and forward transport such as the Internet message protocol described in RFC 822 and implemented on the Internet or other wide area network. A message or other data object is originally maintained by a &ldquo;publication&rdquo; client that publishes the data object and any modifications thereto to one or more &ldquo;subscription&rdquo; clients that will each maintain a copy thereof. As modifications are made by a client (either publication or subscription) to the client copy of the data object, the modified data object is sent, using the store and forward transport, to the publication client to update the data object. Once the data object is updated by the publication client, copies of the modified data object are sent using the store and forward transport to each subscription client so that the subscription client may update the subscription copy. One embodiment of the present invention designates a messaging folder containing one or more data objects as a publication folder (managed by a publication client) that is replicated out to subscription clients over the store and forward transport. The subscription clients each have a corresponding subscription folder wherein the subscription client copies of the data objects are maintained. Any modifications to the data objects are passed to the publication client for verification, replacement in the publication folder, and distribution out to each subscription client for replacement in the corresponding subscription folder. The addition of new data objects or the deletion of existing data objects are handled in like manner through the publication client.

Method, computer program product, and data structure for publishing a data object over a store and forward transport

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Brian L Trenbeath