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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Shankaranand Arunachalam, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Allen Lowe, Redmond, WA (US);
Jason Craig Nelson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Paul Baecke, London, GB;
Xiaoqin Zhu, Redmond, WA (US);
Ganesh Pandey, Redmond, WA (US);
Parul Manek, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In a multi-tenant computing system, a cross-tenant user search system receives a user search input from a user using a client of a first tenant. The cross-tenant user search system accesses a policy that identifies one or more related tenants that are related to the first tenant. The policy also identifies directory records of users in the related tenant that can be searched by users of the first tenant. The cross-tenant user search system executes a search against a directory for the first tenant and executes a separate search against the directory records in the related tenants, identified in the policy. The search results from searching the directory for the first tenant and the related search results from searching the directory records in the tenant are aggregated into an aggregated set of search results which are then returned to the client.