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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Clifford Didcock, Sammamish, WA (US);
Corinne Stroum, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jono Luk, Bellevue, WA (US);
Girish Chander, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGLY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/184 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
Licenses to software services are assigned automatically to users as a function of one or more user attributes. An attribute can include membership in a group such as a license group or a security group, among other things such as location. License assignments can also be retracted automatically upon changes in one or more user attributes.