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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kyle J. Krum, Sammamish, WA (US);
Stephen F. Starck, Redmond, WA (US);
Kerwin Almer M. Azares, Redmond, WA (US);
Tyler Jeffrey White, Seattle, WA (US);
Kurt Allen Geisel, Redmond, WA (US);
Carson J. Hicks, Seattle, WA (US);
Gargee Sharma, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter G. Davis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Raju Jain, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kolby Hoover, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A multi-user aware ('MUA') computing device, such a communal computing device like an interactive digital whiteboard, can enforce role-based constraints on the modification of components, such as configuration settings. The MUA computing device can be configured with universal settings, global settings, and temporal settings. Universal settings cannot be changed by users of the MUA computing device. Device owners can change global settings that apply to all users of a MUA computing device. All users of the MUA computing device can change temporal settings. Changes to temporal settings are stored in profiles associated with authenticated users but are not persisted for guest users. When all users have stopped using the MUA computing device, the device can be configured with default values for the temporal settings in order to return the device to a known state.