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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2005
Genevieve Fernandes, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian Marinescu, Issaquah, WA (US);
Neill M. Clift, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert H. Earhart, Snohomish, WA (US);
Adnan Ilik, Redmond, WA (US);
Genevieve Fernandes, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian Marinescu, Issaquah, WA (US);
Neill M. Clift, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert H. Earhart, Snohomish, WA (US);
Adnan Ilik, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Sharing access to resources using an inter-process communication ('IPC') provides a connection in which references to resources are passed from a sender to a receiver in a trusted third party environment. A sender in possession of a reference to a resource, such as a handle to an object, may initiate the connection with the receiver. In turn, the receiver may accept or refuse the connection, and may further specify the types of resources in which the receiver is interested when accepting through the connection. Sharing access to resources in this manner advantageously insures that only a process that already has access to a resource is able to share that access with another process, and further that only processes that wish to do so will accept such access.