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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);
Cormac E. Herley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, Bellvue, WA (US);
Daniel C. Robbins, Seattle, WA (US);
Arindam Chatterjee, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Field, Seattle, WA (US);
Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien, Sammamish, WA (US);
Cormac E. Herley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, Bellvue, WA (US);
Daniel C. Robbins, Seattle, WA (US);
Arindam Chatterjee, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Field, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that establish a secured compartment that manages sensitive user transactions/information on a user's machine. The secured compartment qualifies user interaction with the machine, and separates such qualified interaction from other user activity on the machine. A user is switched to such secured compartment upon occurrence of a predetermined event, such as in form of: an explicit request (e.g., a secure attention sequence); an implicit request (e.g., inference of user activities); and presence of a peripheral device that is bound to the secured compartment (e.g., a USB)—wherein such actions typically cannot be generated by an application running outside the secured compartment.