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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2005
Applicants:
Art Shelest, Sammamish, WA (US);
Carl M. Ellison, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Art Shelest, Sammamish, WA (US);
Carl M. Ellison, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A conditional activation system distributes a security policy to the computer systems of an enterprise. Upon receiving a security policy at a computer system, the computer system may install the received security policy without activation. When a security policy is installed without activation, it is loaded onto a computer system but is not used to process security enforcement events. The computer system may then determine whether a security policy activation criterion has been satisfied and, if so, activate the security policy.