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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Hadas Bitran, Ramat HaSharon, IS;
Marc E. Davis, Redmond, WA (US);
Haim Somech, Ramat Gan, IS;
Ho John Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Allen G. Jones, Redmond, WA (US);
Oded Nahir, Herzliya, IS;
Jeffrey D. Friedberg, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for managing policy and permissions profiles. Individuals or organizations are permitted to author profiles utilizing a profile template and publish such authored profiles for access and adoption by others. Users are able to import desired profiles and subsequently have those imported profiles applied each time he or she accesses an application or service to which the profile pertains. User interfaces from which users may view profiles associated with them, make alterations to settings of profiles associated with them, and/or select from a plurality of profiles for a particular application or service are also provided. Still further, recommendations may be provided to users for policy and permissions profiles based upon, for instance, crowd-sourcing, profiles adopted by social network connections of a user or other users that are 'like' a user, prior profile selections made by the user, and/or prior user behavior.