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Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2006
Applicants:

David Cross, Redmond, WA (US);

Scott Field, Redmond, WA (US);

Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);

Inventors:

David Cross, Redmond, WA (US);

Scott Field, Redmond, WA (US);

Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

This document describes tools capable of receiving reputation metadata effective to enable better decision making about whether or not to authorize operations. The tools may build a reputation value from this reputation metadata and, based on this value and an authorization rule, better decide whether or not to authorize an operation requested by some program, application, or other actor.


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