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Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Dean Shiyu Chiang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Deepak Kumar Singh, Lynwood, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0421 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05);
Abstract

A method and system for securing an anonymous discovery service may include receiving a request from a client device, the request being directed to an anonymous Autodiscover service, identifying a source from which the request originated from within the client device, and responsive to the source being of a first type of sources, transmitting a first response to the client and responsive to the source being of a second type of sources transmitting a second response to the client. The first response does not return a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a service endpoint, the second response returns a URL to a service endpoint. Furthermore, the anonymous discovery service may be a discovery service that requires no authentication.


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