Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joel Wayne Downer

Jeffrey E Larsson

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Aidan T Hughes

Kirk A Glerum

Shaheeda Parveen Nizar

Raymond E Fowkes

Aleita Downer, Legal Representative

Jixin Wu

During unexpected application shutdowns, application settings states are captured, and displayed application states are restored upon subsequent application restart. User data displayed prior to shutdown may also be restored to pre-shutdown states. Data representing in-use application settings states and in-use user data are stored on a periodic basis, or upon notification of an impending application shutdown. Upon restart, any application deployed prior to shutdown is re-deployed according to the stored application settings states for each application, and any in-use documents or other data may be re-deployed according to the stored user data.

Capturing and restoring application state after unexpected application shutdown

Systems and methods for providing incremental verification of the authenticity of a document for a given computer system are disclosed.

Runtime digital signatures

Applying a system policy for a program module to binary-formatted data within registry of a computer system operating within an administered computer network environment. At program launch, a program can search a particular location in registry to locate certain registry values maintained at that registry location. The program enumerates the name/value pairs maintained at that registry location. These registry values typically have a format that describes an offset defining a location within a global data structure and the number of binary bits that can be processed at that data structure location. In this manner, registry data values maintained within a predetermined location of the registry can be encoded to include content that supports the application of a system policy to the binary values maintained in the global data structure. Although the application of system policy will change the original value stored at the specified location within the global data structure, this original value can be recorded prior to translating the policy value into a bit mask that can be applied to the data structure. At the conclusion of the program session, any changes applied to the global data structure can be rolled back to the original values to enable these original values to persist for subsequent use during another program session.

Method and system for applying a policy to binary data

Creating and maintaining user data using an installation file that includes features and user data components. A user data component is associated with two features (or subfeatures), an application feature and a user settings feature. The application feature is used to create user data for the user that installs the application program and the user settings feature is used to create user data for another user that initiates the application program.

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