Jeffrey Robert Shipman

US Patent:

20070198525, Aug 23, 2007

Filed:

Feb 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/353872

Inventors:

Arindam Chatterjee - Issaquah WA, US
Bashar Kachachi - Kirkland WA, US
Bruce Leban - Redmond WA, US
Calvin Choe - Redmond WA, US
Charles Jeffries - Sammamish WA, US
Jeffrey Shipman - Redmond WA, US
Lakshmanan Venkitaraman - Redmond WA, US
Marc Shepard - Bellevue WA, US
Sachin Sheth - Bothell WA, US
Shankar Seal - Bellevue WA, US
Yang Gao - Issaquah WA, US
Patrick Stratton - Redmond WA, US
Michael Lee - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707010000

Abstract:

A managed network with a quarantine enforcement policy based on the status of installed updates for software on each client seeking access to the managed network. To determine whether a client requesting access has up-to-date software, an access server may communicate directly with an update server to determine the update status of the client requesting access. Information from the update server allows the update server to determine which update the client requesting access is missing. The access server may also receive an indication of the severity of the updates missing from the client requesting access. The access server may use the severity information to apply a quarantine enforcement policy, thereby avoiding the need for either the client or access server to be programmed to identify specific software updates that must be installed for a client to comply with a quarantine enforcement policy. To reduce network congestion and delays seeking access to the network, the quarantine enforcement policy includes a deadline by which updates must be installed. Establishing a deadline allows a grace period during which clients may download new updates and avoids network congestion from multiple clients downloading updates simultaneously.

US Patent:

20140354401, Dec 4, 2014

Filed:

Sep 5, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/018680

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Karanbir Singh - Seattle WA, US
Arthur H. Baker - Redmond WA, US
Vijay G. Bharadwaj - Sammamish WA, US
Nelly L. Porter - Kirkland WA, US
Violet Anna Barhudarian - Redmond WA, US
John D. T. Wood - Redmond WA, US
Jeffrey E. Shipman - Redmond WA, US
Jeremy D. Viegas - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G07C 9/00

US Classification:

340 552

Abstract:

The techniques and systems disclosed herein pertain to preventing unauthorized access to computing resources by unauthorized persons by deploying biometric security. To implement biometric security, the computing device, possibly by the OS, may obtain samples of one or more biometric factors unique to the owner. The computing device may construct pattern-matching templates corresponding to the biometric samples, which may be stored for later use when a protected resource is requested. Computing resources may be selected for protection by a biometric security mechanism by an authorized user or by other techniques or default settings. Before allowing certain restricted actions, the OS may request that the user provide one of the previously registered biometric samples. If the biometric sample matches the user's stored pattern-matching template, the OS may grant access to the computing resource, otherwise, the OS may deny access to the computing resource.