Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Krassimir Emilov Karamfilov

John Raymond Justice

Roderick Michael Toll

Gregory Kostal

Vladimir Yarmolenko

Yuhui Zhong

Pankaj Mohan Kamat

Charles Claudius Marais

Emad Barsoum

David James Quinn

Kenneth D Ray

Scott C Cottrille

Frank R Morrison, Iii

Amit Fulay

Duncan G Bryce

Tejas Patel

Eddie Louis Mays, Iii

Paul J Leach

Charles W Kaufman

Brandon T Hunt

Alexander Burba

William R Tipton

Victor Boctor

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Andrew M Herron

Frank Byrum

Mayank Mehta

Hao Zhang

Jonathan D Schwartz

Edward Thomas Banti

Rushmi U Malaviarachchi

Christopher Barnes

Michael Nelte

Chandresh Kumar Jain

Matthew Charles Setzer

Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld

James R Knibb

John Richard McDowell

Yavor Vesselinov Angelov

Saeed Javed Akhter

Ayse Yesim Koman

Jeffrey M Brown

Umesh R Dhond

Jody A Hendrix

Ray Wayne Davis

A system includes a processor and machine readable instructions stored on a tangible machine readable medium and executable by the processor, for a computer program, configured to allow one or more accounts of an enterprise to access the computer program before the enterprise purchases and manages the computer program and to allow the computer program to implement, after the enterprise purchases and manages the computer program, one or more policies of the enterprise regarding use of the computer program without modifying the computer program.

Automatic takeover of applications installed on client devices in an enterprise network

Embodiments of the present invention enable rich control input data to control video games that are remotely executed. Rich control input includes three-dimensional image data, color video, audio, device orientation data, and touch input. A remotely-executed video game is one executed on a server or other computing device that is networked to a client device receiving the rich control input. Rich control input includes more data than can be uploaded to a game server without degrading game performance. Embodiments of the present invention preprocess the rich control data on the client and into data that may be uploaded to the game server. The rich input stream may be processed in a general way or in a game-specific way.

Client side processing of game controller input

Aspects of the present invention allow a touch screen device to operate as a gamepad for a video game running on a separate gaming device. Aspects of the present invention provide a virtual control interface through the touch screen that includes virtual game controls that perform the same function as a directional pad, buttons, triggers, and sticks found on a gamepad or other game controller. In one aspect, the virtual control interface provides an output that is substantially similar to an output generated by a gamepad able to interact with the gaming device. Substantially similar outputs allow a gaming device to respond to a functional control from a gamepad and an equivalent functional control from the virtual control interface the same way and without translation. Aspects of the present invention can provide different virtual control interfaces for different video game titles, different genres, and based on user customization.

Touch screen game controller

Embodiments of the present invention split game processing and rendering between a client and a game server. A rendered video game image is received from a game server and combined with a rendered image generated by the game client to form a single video game image that is presented to a user. Game play may be controlled using a rich sensory input, such as three-dimensional image data and audio data. The three-dimensional image data describes the shape, size and orientation of objects present in a play space. The rich sensory input is communicated to a game server, potentially with some preprocessing, and is also consumed locally on the client, at least in part. In one embodiment, latency sensitive features are the only features processed on the client and rendered on the client.

Client rendering of latency sensitive game features

Embodiments of the present invention allow game play to migrate back and forth between a server-run video game and a client-run video game. For example, a user could start playing a video game running on a server and then migrate play to a client device, such as a game console. When a game is running on the server, the server executes the game code, renders a video image, and communicates the image to the client. The client may communicate game control commands to the server. The game play may also start on the client and transition to a server. For example, a user may reach a point in the game where the user does not have the game files stored on the client.

Game migration

Buffering an interactive digital content item includes downloading the interactive digital content item, and beginning execution of the interactive digital content item with a buffer after enough of the interactive digital content item is downloaded to fill the buffer and before the interactive digital content item is completely downloaded. The size of the buffer is dynamically set as a function of one or more experience parameters.

Dynamic buffer

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for deriving express rights in protected content. Embodiments of the invention provide mechanisms to convert implicit rights to express rights for entities, including applications, inside and outside of an organizational (e.g., enterprise) boundary. The conversion can occur dynamically, based on the information protection policies defined by a policy administrator, granting entities express access to perform tasks on protected content.

Deriving express rights in protected content

Business to business secure mail may be provided. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a protected message may be received. The recipient may request a token from a trust broker, submit the token to an authorization server associated with the sender, receive a user license from the authorization server; and decrypt the protected message using the user license. The protected message may restrict actions that may be taken by the recipient, such as forwarding to other users.

Business to business secure mail

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for licensing protected content to application sets. Embodiments of the invention permit a local machine to increase its participation in authorizing access to protected content. For example, an operating system within an appropriate computing environment is permitted to determine if an application is authorized to access protected content. Thus, the application is relieved from having to store a publishing license. Further, authorization decisions are partially distributed, easing the resource burden on a protection server. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention can facilitate more robust and efficient authorization decisions when access to protected content is requested.

Licensing protected content to application sets

The secure application of content protection policies to content. The secure application of content protection polices is accomplished by having an enforcement mechanism monitor policy application points to detect the transfer of content. The enforcement mechanism accesses the content and a determination is made to protect the content. A usage policy is then identified by the enforcement mechanism to apply to the content and the usage policy is then applied to the content, resulting in a usage policy for the content.

Automatic application of information protection policies

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for pre-performing operations for accessing protected content. Cryptographic user key pairs can be pre-generated and distributed in response to a variety of different events prior to provisioning client machine for accessing protected content. Usage licenses can be pre-generated and allocated prior to requests for usage licenses. Usage licenses can be pre-obtained for client machines prior to client machines access protected content. Pre-performed operations can be performed in response to detected events, such as, for example, reduced resource consumption in a Digital Rights Management system.

Pre-performing operations for accessing protected content

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Krassimir Emilov Karamfilov