Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ramesh Manne

Yordan Ivanov Rouskov

David Steeves

Krishna C Vitaldevara

Eric Fleischman

Prabu Raju

Luke Abrams

Winfred Wong

Hersh Dangayach

Niyantha Shekar

Payoj Baral

Meenakshi Ramaswamy

Tarek Najm

Rico Mariani

Lee Wang

Tara Sanathanan Prakriya

Madhan Subhas

Nishant Dani

Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri

Stephen R Gordon

Jithendra K Veeramachaneni

Lan Tang

Savithri N Dani

Kitty L Leung

Chris G Parker

Karl D Johnson

Degelhan Truesaw

Daniel P Boerner

In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interfacemay receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storagemay store a user location profile of the user. A processormay execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interfacemay present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.

Protection from unfamiliar login locations

An approach is described for maintaining multiple presence objects associated with a single entity. The different presence objects correspond to different respective aspects of the entity's presence. Each presence object includes subscriber information and permission information associated therewith. The subscriber information identifies the subscribers that subscribe to receive notifications for a particular presence object. The permission information identifies the users who are entitled to receive notifications for the particular presence object. By virtue of the use of multiple objects, the entity can control access to its presence information with a high degree of granularity.

Providing access to presence information using multiple presence objects

In accordance with a method and system for centralized network usage tracking, documents on a network server include a reference to content on a centralized logging server. When one of the documents is accessed by a client computer, the process of rendering the content at the client computer includes requesting the content from the logging server. The logging server, upon receipt of such a request, logs information embedded in the request and returns a trivial response which requires little time and which rendering of need not be perceivable by the user.

Method and system for providing centralized web usage tracking

Method and system for centralized network usage tracking

Described herein is a data collection and warehousing system that collects log files from a plurality of servers, and that transforms the entries of the log files prior to using them to populate a database. Nightly, the system provides a pre-processing program to each of the servers. The servers executing the pre-processing component to filter the logged data before sending it on to the data collection and warehousing system. The data collection and warehousing system pre-parses each received log file to create dimension and fact tables. During this process, strings are replaced by keys. These keys are calculated on-the-fly by taking a hash of each string. The resulting tables are then further parsed to create further dimension and fact tables that correspond to each of the dimension and fact tables of a relational database schema. After further processing, these tables are loaded into a data warehousing system.

Populating a data warehouse using a pipeline approach

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Ramesh Manne