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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Benjamin M. Schultz, Bellevue, WA (US);
Frederick Justus Smith, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Vasquez Lopez, Duvall, WA (US);
Abhinav Mishra, Redmond, WA (US);
Ian James McCarty, Redmond, WA (US);
John A. Starks, Seattle, WA (US);
Joshua David Ebersol, Redmond, WA (US);
Ankit Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);
Hari R. Pulapaka, Redmond, WA (US);
Mehmet Iyigun, Kirland, WA (US);
Stephen E. Bensley, Kirland, WA (US);
Giridhar Viswanathan, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Anonymous containers are discussed herein. An operating system running on a computing device, also referred to herein as a host operating system running on a host device, prevents an application from accessing personal information (e.g., user information or corporate information) by activating an anonymous container that is isolated from the host operating system. In order to create and activate the anonymous container, a container manager anonymizes the configuration and settings data of the host operating system, and injects the anonymous configuration and settings data into the anonymous container. Such anonymous configuration and settings data may include, by way of example and not limitation, application data, machine configuration data, and user settings data. The host operating system then allows the application to run in the anonymous container.