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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sunay Vaishnav, Seattle, WA (US);
Merwan Vishnu Hade, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen Christopher Siciliano, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Nissimoff, Bellevue, WA (US);
Fnu Anubhav, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying and consenting to permissions for workflow and code execution. Aspects of the invention can be used to automatically scan a workflow or code definition to identify (potentially all) the actions/triggers a workflow or program intends to perform on behalf of a user. The user is shown the actions/triggers the workflow or program intends to perform (e.g., at a user interface) before consent to perform the actions/triggers is granted. As such, a user is aware of intended actions/triggers of a workflow or program before granting consent. Further, since actions/triggers are identified from the workflow or code definition (and not formulated by an author), permission requests better align with permissions that workflow or program functionality actually uses during execution.