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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:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2022
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
William Francis Ganong, III, Brookline, MA (US);
Ljubomir Milanovic, Vienna, AT;
Dushyant Sharma, Tracy, CA (US);
Uwe Helmut Jost, Groton, MA (US);
Patrick Aubrey Naylor, Reading, GB;
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/16 (2013.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/16 (2013.01); H04L 9/30 (2013.01); H04L 2209/608 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, from a requesting party, a request to access data from a storage device. Identity information associated with the requesting party is determined. A bespoke identity-based watermark is generated for the requesting party. The bespoke identity-based watermark is encoded into the data. The watermarked data is provided to the requesting party.