Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Karuna Koneru

Dandan He

Michael Meulemans

Phil Cupp

Nate Clinton

Anand Vaidyanathan

Nathaniel Terrell Clinton

Ravi Kumar Bikkula

Jeffrey R Goldian

Steve Buroker

Michael Beyer

Disclosed herein is a system and method for optimizing a cookie or token in a web service or other claims based domain system. A user presents an identity token to the domain system which verifies the identity claim as authentic and then determines what accounts the user has access to on the domain. The user is issued an intermediate token by the system which includes the locations of the accounts the user has access to. The user then selects the account they wish to interact with and receives an account token back to the user for the specific account, including any of the privileges the user has on the account. The account token also includes information that the user has multiple accounts on the domain. The user is able to switch accounts on the domain system without having to revalidate their credentials to the domain system.

Cookie optimization

A catalog for maintaining a store of public and private limited distribution release software changes in a single location. A method for distributing limited distribution release software changes to clients via a network comprises receiving a search request, authenticating the client, querying a database of limited distribution release software changes, filtering the returned data according to a screening criteria, and providing the returned data to the client. A further method receives a request from a client to develop a limited distribution release software change, develops the limited distribution release software change, adds the developed limited distribution release software change to a catalog, notifies the client, and provides an interface to the client for accessing. A system further links knowledge base entries with related limited distribution release software changes.

Accessible limited distribution release software change catalog

Network service for a software change catalog

A site redirection system and corresponding methods for redirecting a user from a requested site to a target site is provided. When a user navigates to a site on which the redirection system is implemented, the site downloads onto the user's machine client-side redirection logic. The client-side redirection logic collects the machine's configuration information and passes the collected configuration information to the site. On the site, server-side redirection logic uses the received configuration information to determine a target URL based on the configuration information passed by the client-side redirection logic. The server-side redirection logic then passes the target URL to the client-side redirection logic where the final redirection occurs.

Site redirection

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Karuna Koneru