Patents by Inventor Brendan W. Dixon

Brendan W. Dixon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Passive client single sign-on for web applications
    Patent number: 8108920
    Abstract: A system provides single sign-on capabilities for accessing a Web application through a passive client across multiple realms within a federation. A federation refers to different organizations or realms that have employed agreements, standards, and/or cooperative technologies to make user identity and entitlements portable between the organizations. Communications are redirected through a client in one realm to obtain a security token that can allow the resource server in the other realm to authenticate the user for access to the Web application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Spelman, Yordan Rouskov, Brendan W. Dixon, Matthew Hur, Josh Thomas Gray, Michael S. Dusche, Ryan D. Johnson, John Kahren Tevosyan
  • Flexible, selectable, and fine-grained network trust policies
    Patent number: 7353535
    Abstract: A flexible way of expressing trust policies using, for example, XML. Multiple statement types may be expressed for a single authority type. Statement types may include less than all of the statements made by an authority type. Authority types may be defined using any manner interpretable by the computing system using the trust policy. In addition, trust policies may be updated as trust levels change. Even multiple trust policies may be used with reconciliation between the multiple trust policies being accomplished by using the more restrictive trust policy with respect to an assertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher G. Kaler, John P. Shewchuk, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Praerit Garg, Brendan W. Dixon
  • Passive client single sign-on for Web applications
    Publication number: 20040230831
    Abstract: A system provides single sign-on capabilities for accessing a Web application through a passive client across multiple realms within a federation. A federation refers to different organizations or realms that have employed agreements, standards, and/or cooperative technologies to make user identity and entitlements portable between the organizations. Communications are redirected through a client in one realm to obtain a security token that can allow the resource server in the other realm to authenticate the user for access to the Web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Spelman, Yordan Rouskov, Brendan W. Dixon, Matthew Hur, Josh Thomas Gray, Michael S. Dusche, Ryan D. Johnson, John Kahren Tevosyan
  • Flexible, selectable, and fine-grained network trust policies
    Publication number: 20040193911
    Abstract: A flexible way of expressing trust policies using, for example, XML. Multiple statement types may be expressed for a single authority type. Statement types may include less than all of the statements made by an authority type. Authority types may be defined using any manner interpretable by the computing system using the trust policy. In addition, trust policies may be updated as trust levels change. Even multiple trust policies may be used with reconciliation between the multiple trust policies being accomplished by using the more restrictive trust policy with respect to an assertion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher G. Kaler, John P. Shewchuk, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Praerit Garg, Brendan W. Dixon