Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ramu Movva

Suresh Kannan

Paul J Leach

Mark H Lucovsky

Richard Bruce Ward

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Burra Gopal

Peter Sewall Ford

Lijiang Fang

Samuel John George

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Steven D White

Paul Andrew Steckler

Winnie C Wu

Jagadeesh Kalki

William Raymond Hoffman

Michael B Taylor

Walter C Hsueh

Jason A Antonelli

David Benjamin Auerbach

Kendall D Keil

Philip Michael Smoot

Yi-Wen Guu

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yordan Ivanov Rouskov

Kyle Stapley Young

Kok Wai Chan

Wei-qiang Guo

Orville Charles McDonald

Duoc Nguyen

Wei-Qiang Michael Guo

Orville Charles Mcdonald

Authentication is widely used to protect consumer data and computing services, such as email, document storage, and online banking. Current authentication models, such as those employed by online identity providers, may have limited options and configurations for authentication schemes. Accordingly, as provided herein, a model based authentication scheme may be configured based upon a policy and/or an authentication mechanism list. The policy may define the target resource, a user, a group the user belongs to, devices used to connect to the target resource, a service owning the target resource, etc. The authentication mechanism list may comprise predefined authentication mechanisms and/or user plug-in authentication mechanisms (e.g., user created authentication mechanism). Once the authentication scheme is configured, it may be enforced upon authentication requests from a user. Feedback may be provided to the user based upon patterns of usage of the target resource.

Model based multi-tier authentication

Method and systems for generating notifications in a notifications system. A parameter-driven template received from a content provider contains one or more parameters related to a subscription for notifications. The notifications system enables an application based on the received template and executes it to map a recurring event to one or more subscribers as a function of the parameters specified by the content provider. In response to the recurring event, the notification system generates a notification. Other aspects of the invention relate to a computer-readable medium that defines the application for use in a notifications system.

Hosted notifications templates

Methods and systems for managing notifications. A web service embodying aspects of the invention is responsive to requests structured according to an extensible messaging framework and extracts request information, including at least a content provider identifier and a topic identifier, from the request to execute a selected notification management function.

Topic-based notification service

A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.

Schema-based services for identity-based data access

Growing community of inventors

Issaquah, WA, United States of America

Ramu Movva