Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu

Rachel Jiang

Dharma Kiritkumar Shukla

Abolade Gbadegesin

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Perraju Bendapudi

Shawn Patrick Burke

Ori Amiga

Rhoniel Villano Manlapaz

Jason William Fuller

Naveen Sethia

Peter J Torr

Darin Miller

Randal James Ramig

Jorge I Raastroem

Alan Michael Bush

Kunal Gandhi

Junfeng Zhang

Amy Elizabeth Alberts

Ashwini Kumar Varma

Timothy Michael Kurtzman

Sree Hari Nagaralu

Jan H Karachale

Ranganath Kondapally

Vijay Krishna Tandra Sistla

Alper Selcuk

Pavan Kumar Dasari

Venkata Sai Ravali Busetty

Karthikeyan Raman

Sumit Malhotra

Kirushna Kumaar Ganesan

Neeraj Jain

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for protecting cloud resources. The methods and systems may use a virtual gatekeeper resource to enforce secure access controls to cloud resources for a list of privileged operations. The cloud resources and the virtual gatekeeper resource may be in different security domains within a cloud computing system and the cloud resources may be linked to the virtual gatekeeper resource. A request may be sent to perform a privileged operation on the cloud resource. Access may be provided to the virtual gatekeeper resource in response to approval of the request and the access to the virtual gatekeeper resource may be used to perform the privileged operation on the cloud resource.

Gatekeeper resource to protect cloud resources against rogue insider attacks

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are presented for generating notifications for a person according to user-defined notification templates. In contrast to presenting notifications according to a default notification template, the disclosed subject matter is directed to generating a notification regarding a notification signal according to a user-defined notification template. Upon receiving a notification signal, a determination is made as to whether a first user-defined notification template from a template store is applicable to the notification signal. Upon determining that the user-defined notification template is applicable to the received notification signal, a notification corresponding to the notification signal is generated and presented according to the user-defined notification template.

User-defined notification templates

The subject disclosure is directed towards a task switching technology on a computing device such as a Smartphone. An application is comprised of one or more tasks. When a user requests that another task be executed, information about the previously executing task (e.g., including a screenshot) is preserved to a stack. If the user invokes a task switcher program, the user is presented with a view of the stack, e.g., containing the screenshots (and representative text) of the tasks that previously executed. The user may navigate among those presented task representations to arbitrarily select any one, with the selected task resumed upon selection.

Task switching on mobile devices

The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which background application code (e.g., provided by third-party developers) runs on a mobile device in a way that is constrained with respect to resource usage. A resource manager processes a resource reservation request for background code, to determine whether the requested resources meet constraint criteria for that type of background code. If the criteria are met and the resources are available, the resources are reserved, whereby the background code is ensured priority access to its reserved resources. As a result, a properly coded background application that executes within its constraints will not experience glitches or other problems (e.g., unexpected termination) and thereby provide a good user experience.

Constrained execution of background application code on mobile devices

A computing environment may be represented as a deployable object hierarchy, which may be organized according to an object hierarchy schema that is commonly shared among the computing environment host and the devices that are configured to render the computing environment. A particular object hierarchy schema is presented in detail for representing a computing environment, wherein many objects of the computing environment are modeled as resources that may be distinctly addressable (e.g., in a RESTful object hierarchy.) Many types of objects and properties thereof are presented in order to elucidate an exemplary object hierarchy schema and to illustrate exemplary objects and object hierarchies organized according thereto. Additional properties of various object hierarchy schemas include extensibility, deployability, and object addressing models with various advantages.

Computing environment representation

Application setting virtualization for a user. Application settings from a source computer are copied to a user-specific location on a destination computer and layered under corresponding application settings associated with one or more applications installed on the destination computer. In response to receiving a request from an application for an application setting, the requested application setting is retrieved from the layered application settings such that the layers are searched in order for the requested application setting and the first application setting found is retrieved and returned to the requesting application.

Application settings migration using virtualization

Transferring user state data for an application program from a first execution environment to a second execution environment. An interceptor component records interactions between the application program and a data repository when the application program is executed in the first execution environment. The locations of the recorded interactions in the data repository correspond to the user state data associated with the application program. A script component generates computer-executable scripts based on the identified locations and a migration component transfers the user state data associated with the application program from any first execution environment in which the application is installed to the second execution environment by executing the scripts in the second execution environment.

Automatic discovery of application settings' storage locations

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu