Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mircrosoft Corporation

Walter C Hsueh

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

Paul Andrew Steckler

Steven D White

Jagadeesh Kalki

Winnie C Wu

William Raymond Hoffman

Michael B Taylor

Ramu Movva

Suresh Kannan

David Benjamin Auerbach

Kendall D Keil

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yi-Wen Guu

Philip Michael Smoot

Yordan Ivanov Rouskov

Imran I Qureshi

Omar H Shahine

Daniel W Crevier

Brian Robert Tunning

Spencer Wong Low

Techniques for mixed-mode authentication are described. In one or more embodiments, an authentication service may be implemented to selectively configure and issue authentication tokens based upon an optional secure mode that enables enhanced security. Clients may be provided with an option to choose between an insecure mode and a secure mode for authentications. Based on this choice, tokens may be configured to include an indication of whether the secure mode is disabled or enabled. When secure mode is disabled, an insecure token valid for both secure sites and other sites is issued to a client when the client is authenticated. When the optional secure mode is enabled, both secure and insecure tokens are provided to the client. The authentication services and/or other services may be configured to reject an insecure token when secure mode is enabled to prevent unauthorized use of a stolen token to access secure resources.

Mixed-mode authentication

Spell checking of a document in a network browser based application is performed automatically. Spell checking may be performed in a content page in response to user editing of the document text. Text entered into a document through a browser application interface is divided into nodes. The nodes may be associated with a section, line or word of text. Each node may be assigned one or more parameters which may indicate whether the node has been spell checked or not. Selected nodes are sent to a spell check service for spell checking. Correction information is received in response to the spell check request. Once a client device receives the correction information, words within the text range of the document that match identified misspelled words are processed. In one embodiment, matching words are highlighted with a visual indicator to indicate that they may be incorrectly spelled.

Spell checking in network browser based applications

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

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Walter C Hsueh