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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2010
Aaron Culbreth, Bellevue, WA (US);
Keumars A. Ahdieh, Ii, Lake Stevens, WA (US);
Peter M. Wiest, Issaquah, WA (US);
Roderick M. Toll, Sammamish, WA (US);
Roger H. Wynn, Redmond, WA (US);
Stan Dale Pennington, NewCastle, WA (US);
Timothy Arthur Gill, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Culbreth, Bellevue, WA (US);
Keumars A. Ahdieh, II, Lake Stevens, WA (US);
Peter M. Wiest, Issaquah, WA (US);
Roderick M. Toll, Sammamish, WA (US);
Roger H. Wynn, Redmond, WA (US);
Stan Dale Pennington, NewCastle, WA (US);
Timothy Arthur Gill, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A compliance interface is disclosed that takes in queries from applications which may want to know if they are compliant with associated polices stored on a computing system. The interface can then interpret these queries and provide notifications and instructions to the applications. Notifications may give notice of how a policy may impact an application, and instructions may tell an application how to behave in order to stay compliant with the policies. In one aspect, the interface exposes policies set forth by parents. Via a management control panel, parents can set or alter various policies, stored in a settings store, to protect children from contact with undesirable content. The interface interprets these policies to ensure that applications, such as those provided by third party vendors, are compliant with the wishes set forth in the parents' policies.