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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2004
Applicants:

Elliot D. Lewis, Bellevue, WA (US);

Hakan Berk, Bellevue, WA (US);

Narendra C. Gidwani, Kirkland, WA (US);

Jesper M. Johansson, Woodinville, WA (US);

Timothy M. Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);

Ashwin Palekar, Sammamish, WA (US);

Calvin C. Choe, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Elliot D. Lewis, Bellevue, WA (US);

Hakan Berk, Bellevue, WA (US);

Narendra C. Gidwani, Kirkland, WA (US);

Jesper M. Johansson, Woodinville, WA (US);

Timothy M. Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);

Ashwin Palekar, Sammamish, WA (US);

Calvin C. Choe, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A client quarantine agent requests bill of health from a quarantine server, and receives a manifest of checks that the client computer must perform. The quarantine agent then sends a status report on the checks back to the quarantine server. If the client computer is in a valid security state, the bill of health is issued to the client. If the client computer is in an invalid state, the client is directed to install the appropriate software/patches to achieve a valid state. When a client requests the use of network resources from a network administrator, the network administrator requests the client's bill of health. If the bill of health is valid, the client is admitted to the network. If the bill of health is invalid, the client is placed in quarantine.


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