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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2009
Brian P. Walker, Seattle, WA (US);
John A. Solaro, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert Edward Parkin, Redmond, WA (US);
Rahul R. Deshpande, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cyril S. Bouanna, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian M. King, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian P. Walker, Seattle, WA (US);
John A. Solaro, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert Edward Parkin, Redmond, WA (US);
Rahul R. Deshpande, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cyril S. Bouanna, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian M. King, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a technology by which private content maintained behind a firewall (e.g., in a 'mesh') may be searched, browsed, and accessed via an index that exists outside of the firewall. Searching of the index may include checking permissions of a user against permissions associated with metadata in the index, e.g., per watch folder into which file content is added. When content is selected, e.g., by clicking on a search result, a request is made. An application polls for such requests, and when detected, pushes a copy of the content through the firewall to the requester. The search may be performed over more than one index, with aggregated search results returned.