Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Raj Jhanwar

Ryan M Burkhardt

Jason L Cohen

Vijayachandran Jayaseelan

Seetharaman Harikrishnan

Tom G Yaryan

Ovidiu G Temereanca

David Cris Hennessey

Michael Grier

Michael James Day

Stephen Lodwick

Brian McNeill

Controlling access to functionality within an installed software product. The invention includes an authorization module that dynamically references authorization information when specific functionality is requested by a requesting entity such as a user or an application program to determine if the requested functionality is authorized to be executed. Further, the invention dynamically provides an opportunity to the requesting entity to purchase unauthorized functionality. In this manner, functionality within the software product may be enabled or disabled at any time (e.g., during installation, post-installation, and re-installation).

Selectively authorizing software functionality after installation of the software

A system and method for dynamically updating software on one or more installation media for installation on at least one destination machine. The invention obtains update content from one or more update media and merges the update content with the software on the installation media prior to installing the software on the destination machine. The software to be installed includes application programs and operating system software.

Dynamic software update

A componentization schema representing files from which an operating system or other software product is built. According to the schema, a component object represents one or more of the files. The component object has a manifest that identifies the component and specifies any dependencies between the component and other objects. Grouping objects according to the dependencies specified in manifests permits building the software product. A feature object defined by at least one component object represents a feature of the software product and a product object defined by at least one feature object represents the software product.

Software componentization for building a software product

A software tool and method in which a source image is split into and spans across two or more image pieces having a data structure which fits onto a computer readable medium having an available storage capacity which is smaller than the size of the source image. Also, software tool and method which combines two or more image pieces of a source image on a destination medium into a re-combined image having a data structure corresponding to the source image.

System and method for splitting an image across multiple computer readable media

Updating component-based software product with files stored in a service package. The service package also includes a plurality of instruction sets each corresponding to a state or operating context of a component in the software product. A component installer determines the state of the component and applies the instruction set corresponding to the determined state to install the files.

Growing community of inventors

Bothell, WA, United States of America

Raj Jhanwar