Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld

Chandramouli Venkatesh

Blair Brewster Dillaway

Charles F Rose

Rushmi U Malaviarachchi

Steve Bourne

Pierre Jacomet

Kumar B Parambir

Christopher G Kaler

Attila Narin

Martyn S Lovell

Scott C Cottrille

Peter David Waxman

Bradley Bartz

Gregory Kostal

Amit Fulay

Vladimir Yarmolenko

Krassimir Emilov Karamfilov

Yuhui Zhong

Rushmi U Malviarachchi

Jeffrey M Brown

Umesh R Dhond

Jody A Hendrix

A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.

Issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights management (DRM) system

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for pre-performing operations for accessing protected content. Cryptographic user key pairs can be pre-generated and distributed in response to a variety of different events prior to provisioning client machine for accessing protected content. Usage licenses can be pre-generated and allocated prior to requests for usage licenses. Usage licenses can be pre-obtained for client machines prior to client machines access protected content. Pre-performed operations can be performed in response to detected events, such as, for example, reduced resource consumption in a Digital Rights Management system.

Pre-performing operations for accessing protected content

An organization maintains a computer network comprising at least a forest A and a forest B, where forest A has a directory A and a querying entity A capable of querying directory A, and forest B has a directory B and a querying entity B capable of querying directory B. Querying entity A receives a request from the user and decides whether to grant the request based at least in part on whether the user is a member of the group. Thus, querying entity A queries directory A to return information on the group, is directed to forest B, contacts querying entity B, requests querying entity B to query directory B whether the user is a member of the group, receives a response, and grants the request from the user based at least in part on whether the user is a member of the group.

Issuing a digital rights management (DRM) license for content based on cross-forest directory information

Development of multiple-version software employs versioned documents in a store. The documents are compared (differenced) at both line and character levels. Potential conflicts in merged documents are marked by detecting possible alternative histories from a common parent document. Changes from an earlier version are removed from a later version of the same document even when the document has intervening versions. A build lab allows developers to work in parallel on a new software build while another build is being run and patched on a different set of documents; the developers each have private copies from which changes pertaining to a build have been added, and then backed out when the file is returned to a common area.

Managing code changes for software development

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Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld