Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Workman Nydegger

Robert George Atkinson

Antony S Williams

Edward K Y Jung

Craig Henry Wittenberg

Surendra Verma

C Douglas Hodges

Thomas Jay Miller

Srinivasa R Koppolu

Malcolm Erik Pearson

David Richard Reed

Christopher G Kaler

Steven D White

Alexander A Mitchell

Joshua T Goodman

Robert L Rounthwaite

Steven E Lucco

William Thomas Blank

James M Lyon

Donald M Gray

Roy Williams

Allen L Brown, Jr

Khaja Ehteshamuddin Ahmed

Andrew L Bliss

Philip J Lafornara

Anand Valavi

Harry Simon Katz

Alexander G Tilles

Philip Ljubicich

Paul J Leach

Satish Ramchandra Thatte

Richard Douglas Hill

Andrew Layman

Leon Robert Warman

Cynthia Dwork

Bradford R Clark

Andrew V Goldberg

Shannon J Chan

Gopal Krishna R Kakivaya

Robert M Price

Nathaniel S Brown

Tom Corbett

Johann Posch

Tom Blank

Antonty S Williams

James David Johnston

John Peter Shewchuk

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Michael Gamon

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Richard J Wolf

Kirk O Olynyk

Michael W Van Flandern

Laura Janet Butler

James W Kelly

Robert P Reichel

Aaron M Contorer

Simon H Corston

Eric K Ringger

Marc Levy

Bryan William Tuttle

Peter Kam-Ho Wong

Kevin Michael Schofield

Richard G Campbell

Gregory C Lowney

Alexander Robert Norton Wetmore

Matthew William Pearson

Charles Oppermann

James Utzschneider

Henrik F Neilsen

William Tom Blank

A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations are to be handled as a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transaction context. For file system requests associated with a transaction context, a file system component manages operations consistent with transactional behavior. Logging and recovery are also facilitated by logging page data separate from the main log with a unique signature that enables the log to determine whether a page was fully flushed to disk prior to a system crash.

Transactional file system

A method and system for retrieving and maintaining presentation data in a presentation cache is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a presentation cache object provides a presentation cache with multiple cache entries. Each entry contains an indication of the format of the presentation data and the presentation data stored in that particular format. In addition, other information, such as the advisees of advisory connections for notification of cache updates, can be maintained. The presentation cache object responds to requests for retrieving source object data by returning presentation data cached within the presentation cache when it is available. In addition, the presentation cache object determines when it should delegate requests to the source object and when it can satisfy them on its own. The presentation cache object can return presentation data to a requesting client program even if the server program implementing the source object is unavailable or not running. The presentation cache object can also choose to persistently store its cache entries so that the presentation cache is maintained when the source object is closed. In addition, client programs can provide control over the frequency and subject of presentation data updates within the presentation cache.

Method and system for caching presentation data

A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations are to be handled as a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transaction context. For file system requests associated with a transaction context, a file system component manages operations consistent with transactional behavior. Transactions over a network are facilitated. Remote files may be accessed within a transaction via a redirector protocol. A redirector on a client computer system communicates with an agent on a server computer system to relay and maintain transactional information on both systems.

Systems and methods that facilitate introducing devices having digital characteristics to one another, to mitigate a man-in-the-middle attack. A keytote component supplies initial session keys for communication between devices, and includes a plurality of interfaces that can facilitate such communication. The keytote component can receive a key from a first device via one of a plulrality of communication interfaces associated with the keytote component. The user can then physically carry the keytote component to the vicinity of a second device for transferring the key thereto. As such, a man-in-the-middle attack can be mitigated, as an encrypted channel can be established in an insecure environment.

Keytote component

A group identifier represents an association between each of a number of different abbreviated namespace identifiers with a corresponding hierarchical namespace (e.g., an XML namespace). A hierarchically-structured document (e.g., an XML document) is accessed by a computing system that determines that the group identifier is associated with the hierarchically-structured document. Hence, when using the abbreviated namespace identifiers in the hierarchically-structured document, the computing system knows that the corresponding namespace is associated with the designated portions of the hierarchically-structured document. Also, a schema description language document (e.g., an XSD document) may specify multiple target namespaces for a single element. Accordingly, groupings of elements may be included in different namespaces to creating overlapping or even nested namespaces.

Grouping and nesting hierarchical namespaces

The present invention provides for generating inputs that can be provided to a message classification module to facilitate more reliable classification of electronic messages, such as, for example, as unwanted and/or unsolicited. In one embodiment, a sending messaging server provides an appropriate response to address verification data thereby indicating a reduced likelihood of the sending messaging server using a forged network address. In another embodiment, it is determined if a messaging server is authorized to send electronic messages for a domain. In yet another embodiment, electronic message transmission policies adhered to by a domain are identified. In yet a further embodiment, a sending computer system expends computational resources to solve a computational puzzle and includes an answer document in an electronic message. A receiving computer system receives the electronic message and verifies the answer document.

Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzles

A logically centralized physically distributed Internet protocol (IP) network-connected devices configuration is disclosed. The technology initially receives configuration information regarding an IP network-connected devices configuration. The configuration information is then disseminated to a plurality of devices coupled with the IP network-connected devices configuration. At least a portion of the IP network-connected devices configuration with a related timestamp is then stored on any of the plurality of devices having a datastore thereon. In so doing, the IP network-connected devices configuration is physically distributed and at least partially replicated such that when a comparison of a status information with respect to at least one of the network-connected devices, the status information having a most recent timestamp associated therewith is relied upon.

Logically centralized physically distributed IP network-connected devices configuration

The present invention is directed to a method and system for automatic calibration of an acoustic system. The acoustic system may include a source A/V device, calibration computing device, and multiple rendering devices. The calibration system may include a calibration component attached to each rendering device and a source calibration module. The calibration component on each rendering device includes a microphone. The source calibration module includes distance and optional angle calculation tools for automatically determining a distance between the rendering device and a specified reference point upon return of the test signal from the calibration component.

System and method for calibration of an acoustic system

Provided is a messaging system capable of detecting and processing at least a portion of a malformed message, e.g., a message that previously failed to process. An identifier and state information for the message can be logged. Based on the stored information, a determination can be made that the message previously failed to process. The message can then progressively be de-featured until the message can be processed or until the message is determined to be poisonous, whereupon it can be deleted or otherwise removed from the message stream permanently or temporarily&#x2014;including moving the message to storage for operator inspection or for delayed delivery.

Progressive de-featuring of electronic messages

A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations are to be handled as a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transaction context. For file system requests associated with a transaction context, a file system component manages the operations consistent with transactional behavior. The component handles namespace logging operations in a multiple-level log that facilitates logging and recovery. Page data is logged separate from the main log, with a unique signature that enables the log to determine whether a page was fully flushed to disk prior to a system crash.

The present invention allows for remotely and securely configuring settings for targeted devices within a network with multiple security-trust boundaries. Configuration information is encoded in messages that are digitally signed to ensure the integrity of the configuration information and sent in accordance with a standard messaging transport protocol. By utilizing an already existing port of the standard messaging transport protocol, e.g., SMTP, the number of open ports for configuration purposes is minimized. Further, example embodiments take advantage of hidden fields, i.e., machine readable fields that contain metadata that by default are not presented at a client user interface, for encoding the configuration or command/control information within the messages. The present invention further provides for a central console module that can manage and report on the status of the configuration settings for a plurality of targeted devices that an authorized user or system administrator has attempted to remotely configure.

Secure remote configuration of targeted devices using a standard message transport protocol

A method and system are provided such that a universal license may be used for authentication and authorization purposes and may include one or more cryptographic keys as well as assertions and related indications of authenticity. In an aspect of the invention, a license may be presented that includes access information, such that authentication and authorization decisions may be made based only on the access information. In other aspects of the invention, rights may be delegated and a trusted party may assert that another party can be trusted.

Method and system for using a web service license

A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations should be handled in a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transaction context. For file system requests associated with a transaction context, a file system component manages operations consistent with transactional behavior. The component provides data isolation by providing multiple file versions, such that transactional readers do not receive changes until after the transaction commits and the reader reopens the file. The component also handles namespace logging operations in a multiple-level log that facilitates logging and recovery. Namespace isolation is provided until a transaction commits via isolation directories, whereby until committed, a transaction sees the effects of its own operations but not the operations of other transactions. Transactions over a network are also facilitated via a redirector protocol.

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Robert George Atkinson