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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2010
Patrick Stuedi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Iqbal Mohomed, Mountain View, CA (US);
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Edward P. Wobber, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Patrick Stuedi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Iqbal Mohomed, Mountain View, CA (US);
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Edward P. Wobber, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A cloud infrastructure that communicates with computing devices is provided. The computing devices install filters on other computing devices that they wish to receive items from including pictures, messages, and documents. The filters include criteria that are evaluated on the computing devices, rather than at a server, to determine if an item may be sent to another computing device. The computing devices may then send items that match the criteria to the cloud infrastructure, and the items may be stored and queued for delivery to other computing devices. The items may be encrypted before being provided to the cloud infrastructure, and decrypted when received by the computing devices.