Patents by Inventor Krassimir E. Karamfilov
Krassimir E. Karamfilov 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).
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Patent number: 8505068Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for deriving express rights in protected content. Embodiments of the invention provide mechanisms to convert implicit rights to express rights for entities, including applications, inside and outside of an organizational (e.g., enterprise) boundary. The conversion can occur dynamically, based on the information protection policies defined by a policy administrator, granting entities express access to perform tasks on protected content.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tejas D. Patel, Gregory Kostal, Yuhui Zhong, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Pankaj Mohan Kamat, Krassimir E. Karamfilov
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Patent number: 8447976Abstract: Business to business secure mail may be provided. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a protected message may be received. The recipient may request a token from a trust broker, submit the token to an authorization server associated with the sender, receive a user license from the authorization server; and decrypt the protected message using the user license. The protected message may restrict actions that may be taken by the recipient, such as forwarding to other users.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chandresh K. Jain, Mayank Mehta, Frank D. Byrum, Edward Banti, Ayse Yesim Koman, James R. Knibb, Michael A. Nelte, Christopher Barnes, Hao Zhang, Victor Boctor, Tejas D. Patel, Yuhui Zhong, Gregory Kostal, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Pankaj M. Kamat, Amit K. Fulay, Krassimir E. Karamfilov
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Patent number: 8225390Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for licensing protected content to application sets. Embodiments of the invention permit a local machine to increase its participation in authorizing access to protected content. For example, an operating system within an appropriate computing environment is permitted to determine if an application is authorized to access protected content. Thus, the application is relieved from having to store a publishing license. Further, authorization decisions are partially distributed, easing the resource burden on a protection server. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention can facilitate more robust and efficient authorization decisions when access to protected content is requested.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth D. Ray, Pankaj M. Kamat, Charles W. Kaufman, Paul J. Leach, William R. Tipton, Andrew Herron, Krassimir E. Karamfilov, Duncan G. Bryce, Jonathan D. Schwartz, Matthew C. Setzer, John McDowell
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Publication number: 20120079557Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for deriving express rights in protected content. Embodiments of the invention provide mechanisms to convert implicit rights to express rights for entities, including applications, inside and outside of an organizational (e.g., enterprise) boundary. The conversion can occur dynamically, based on the information protection policies defined by a policy administrator, granting entities express access to perform tasks on protected content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tejas D. Patel, Gregory Kostal, Yuhui Zhong, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Pankaj Mohan Kamat, Krassimir E. Karamfilov
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Patent number: 7882035Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for pre-performing operations for accessing protected content. Cryptographic user key pairs can be pre-generated and distributed in response to a variety of different events prior to provisioning client machine for accessing protected content. Usage licenses can be pre-generated and allocated prior to requests for usage licenses. Usage licenses can be pre-obtained for client machines prior to client machines access protected content. Pre-performed operations can be performed in response to detected events, such as, for example, reduced resource consumption in a Digital Rights Management system.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Scott C. Cottrille, Gregory Kostal, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Jeffrey M. Brown, Umesh R. Dhond, Amit Fulay, Jody A. Hendrix, Krassimir E. Karamfilov, Yevgeniy Rozenfeld, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Yuhui Zhong
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Publication number: 20100313016Abstract: Transport pipeline decryption may be provided. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a protected message may be received and decrypted. The decrypted message may be provided to pipeline agents, such as anti-virus, anti-spam, journaling, and/or policy enforcement agents. The message may then be re-encrypted and delivered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hao Zhang, Danny Tin-Van Chow, Ayse Yesim Koman, Frank D. Byrum, Mayank Mehta, Chandresh K. Jain, Victor Boctor, Charlie R. Chung, Tejas D. Patel, Yuhui Zhong, Amit K. Fulay, Gregory Kostal, Pankaj M. Kamat, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Krassimir E. Karamfilov
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Publication number: 20100306535Abstract: Business to business secure mail may be provided. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a protected message may be received. The recipient may request a token from a trust broker, submit the token to an authorization server associated with the sender, receive a user license from the authorization server; and decrypt the protected message using the user license. The protected message may restrict actions that may be taken by the recipient, such as forwarding to other users.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chandresh K. Jain, Mayank Mehta, Frank D. Byrum, Edward Banti, Ayse Yesim Koman, James R. Knibb, Michael A. Nelte, Christopher Barnes, Hao Zhang, Victor Boctor, Tejas D. Patel, Yuhui Zhong, Gregory Kostal, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Pankaj M. Kamat, Amit K. Fulay, Krassimir E. Karamfilov
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Publication number: 20090192942Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for pre-performing operations for accessing protected content. Cryptographic user key pairs can be pre-generated and distributed in response to a variety of different events prior to provisioning client machine for accessing protected content. Usage licenses can be pre-generated and allocated prior to requests for usage licenses. Usage licenses can be pre-obtained for client machines prior to client machines access protected content. Pre-performed operations can be performed in response to detected events, such as, for example, reduced resource consumption in a Digital Rights Management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Scott C. Cottrille, Gregory Kostal, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Jeffrey M. Brown, Umesh R. Dhond, Amit Fulay, Jody A. Hendrix, Krassimir E. Karamfilov, Yevgeniy Rozenfeld, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Yuhui Zhong