Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Scott Christopher Seely

Dhananjay Madhusudan Mahajan

Daniel W Roth

Erik B Christensen

David Wortendyke

Travis Muhlestein

David Edwin Levin

Babak G Jahromi

John F Noss

Luis Felipe Cabrera

Christopher G Kaler

Kenneth David Wolf

Stephen James Millet

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

James Ernest Johnson

Tirunelveli R Vishwanath

Lance Olson

Richard Douglas Hill

Umesh Madan

Stefan R Batres

Michael James Coulson

Stefan Harrington Pharies

John David Doty

Craig Andrew Critchley

Vijay Gajjala

Uday Sooryakant Hegde

Michael Marucheck

Krishnan Srinivasan

Elliot Lee Waingold

Tomasz Janczuk

Matthew Thomas Tavis

Geary L Eppley

Stephen T Swartz

Michael Steven Vernal

Shy Cohen

Max A Feingold

Richard Dievendorff

George Prentice Copeland

Douglas M Purdy

Natasha Harish Jethanandani

David Owen Driver

Siddhartha Puri

Saurab Nog

Aaron Stern

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Anastasios Kasiolas

Douglas A Walter

Kapil Gupta

Vipul A Modi

Ryan Thomas Sturgell

Sowmyanarayanan K Srinivasan

Jonathan T Wheeler

Evgeny Osovetsky

Alexander Martin DeJarnatt

Mohammad Makarechian

Michael Thomas Dice

Yaniv Pessach

Mauro Ottaviani

Chaitanya Dutt Upadhyay

Erin Honeycutt

Alfred M Lee, Iv

Yasser Shohoud

Eugene Shvets

Anand Rjagopalan

Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan

Serge Sverdlov

Vaithialingam B Balayogan

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for securely inspecting electronic messages. A computer system receives a control message that is passed through one or more receiving path components, positioned in a message receiving path, to a security component. The security component authenticates the received control message and passes the received control message to an inspection control component. The inspection control component activates message inspection in accordance with instructions contained in the received control message. When message inspection is activated, the computer system passes accessed messages to corresponding inspection components positioned in message paths (either receiving or sending) of the accessed message. The inspection component generates an inspection report (e.g., including a portion of contents of the accessed message) in accordance with instructions contained in a previously authenticated control message.

Securely inspecting electronic messages

Mechanisms in which upon receiving a message, the message is passed through one or more receiving path components that are positioned in the receiving path of the message prior to being passed to a dispatching component. One or more of the receiving path components may modify the message to include information that may be helpful to the dispatching component in order to perform the dispatch. The dispatching component receives modified message, and uses information from the modified message (including potentially the modification itself) to perform the dispatch. Since the message is modified to include additional information helpful to the dispatching component, the dispatching component may be more flexible in identifying the processing that should occur with the message. Accordingly, specialized and flexible processing may be enabled that is ideally suited for the message.

Adaptive dispatch of received messages to code using inter-positioned message modification

A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.

Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating messaging diagnostics into a messaging pipeline. A messaging pipeline receives a control message and passes the control message through one or more pipeline components (potentially a security component) positioned in the messaging pipeline. The control message is passed to a diagnostic control component positioned in the messaging pipeline subsequent to passing the received control message through one or more pipeline components. The diagnostic control component activates message diagnostics at diagnostic components positioned within one or more messaging pipelines in accordance with instructions contained in the control message. When message diagnostics are activated, messaging pipelines pass accessed messages to diagnostic components positioned in the messaging pipeline. The diagnostic components perform diagnostic operations based on the contents of the accessed message in accordance with instructions contained in the previously processed (and potentially authenticated) control message.

Integrating electronic messaging diagnostics into a messaging pipeline

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Scott Christopher Seely