Patents by Inventor Patrick Tousignant
Patrick Tousignant 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: 10771328Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitting a mobile device to access maintained data. The computer system receives a request from a mobile device. The computer system determines that current mobile device settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data. The computer system sends device settings, representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate accessing the maintained data, to the mobile device. The computer system receives an indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings. The computer system permits the mobile device to access the maintained data in response to receiving the indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David P. Limont, John Allen Atwood, Massimiliano Ciccotosto, Omar Aftab, Patrick Tousignant, Selvaraj Nalliah, Zhidong Yang
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Patent number: 10581922Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for managing policies of a mobile device. In embodiments, a mobile device receives policy containers from a plurality of disparate management agents. Each policy container has one or more policies. Each policy corresponds to a particular category that governs various aspects of the device. The policies described herein may be device wide policies corresponding to various features on the device. The policies may also be data specific policies which dictate how data is stored on and transferred to and from the device. Once the policies are received, a determination is made as to which policy in each category is the most secure policy. The most secure policy for each category is merged to create a global policy that is applied to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Michael K. Higashi, David Paul Limont, John Allen Atwood, Burhan Ateeq, Patrick Tousignant
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Patent number: 10545922Abstract: A synchronization window for synchronizing data for a calendar in a client calendar data store on a calendar data client computer system with data for the calendar in a server calendar data store on a calendar data server computer system can be calculated using a current time. A request for synchronization data for calendar items for the calendar with calendar times that are within the synchronization window can be sent to the calendar data server. One or more responses to the request can be received from the calendar data server. The response(s) can include received records for calendar items that are at least partially within the synchronization window. The received records can include a master record of a recurring calendar item and an instance record of an occurrence of the recurring calendar item. The received records for the calendar items can be incorporated in the client calendar data store.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sina Hakami, Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Patrick Tousignant
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Patent number: 10536504Abstract: A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Lecroy, Gurashish Brar, Joe Yap, Victor Wang, Umut Alev, Vamsi Kanamaluru, Dmitri Gavrilov, Tali Roth, Aditi Desai, Mike Borysenko, Ethan Bernstein, Patrick Tousignant, Fernando Garcia
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Publication number: 20190363935Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitting a mobile device to access maintained data. The computer system receives a request from a mobile device. The computer system determines that current mobile device settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data. The computer system sends device settings, representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate accessing the maintained data, to the mobile device. The computer system receives an indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings. The computer system permits the mobile device to access the maintained data in response to receiving the indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David P. LIMONT, John Allen ATWOOD, Massimiliano CICCOTOSTO, Omar AFTAB, Patrick TOUSIGNANT, Selvaraj NALLIAH, Zhidong YANG
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Patent number: 10447731Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for electronic mail systems and service in computing environments are provided herein. In one example, an email service is provided that receives receive requests for endpoint information that correspond to email identities included in the requests. For ones of the requests that indicate invalid email identities, the email service determines responses that conceal validity of the invalid email identities by deriving target endpoint information based at least on the invalid email identities, and provides the responses that indicate the target endpoint information.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Deepak Kumar Singh, Sabitha Abraham, Patrick Tousignant
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Patent number: 10382263Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitting a mobile device to access maintained data. The computer system receives a request from a mobile device. The computer system determines that current mobile device settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data. The computer system sends device settings, representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate accessing the maintained data, to the mobile device. The computer system receives an indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings. The computer system permits the mobile device to access the maintained data in response to receiving the indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David P. Limont, John Allen Atwood, Massimiliano Ciccotosto, Omar Aftab, Patrick Tousignant, Selvaraj Nalliah, Zhidong Yang
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Patent number: 10284602Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for managing policies of a mobile device. In embodiments, a mobile device receives policy containers from a plurality of disparate management agents. Each policy container has one or more policies. Each policy corresponds to a particular category that governs various aspects of the device. The policies described herein may be device wide policies corresponding to various features on the device. The policies may also be data specific policies which dictate how data is stored on and transferred to and from the device. Once the policies are received, a determination is made as to which policy in each category is the most secure policy. The most secure policy for each category is merged to create a global policy that is applied to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Michael K. Higashi, David Paul Limont, John Allen Atwood, Burhan Ateeq, Patrick Tousignant
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Publication number: 20190124121Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for managing policies of a mobile device. In embodiments, a mobile device receives policy containers from a plurality of disparate management agents. Each policy container has one or more policies. Each policy corresponds to a particular category that governs various aspects of the device. The policies described herein may be device wide policies corresponding to various features on the device. The policies may also be data specific policies which dictate how data is stored on and transferred to and from the device. Once the policies are received, a determination is made as to which policy in each category is the most secure policy. The most secure policy for each category is merged to create a global policy that is applied to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Juan V. ESTEVE BALDUCCI, Michael K. HIGASHI, David Paul LIMONT, John Allen ATWOOD, Burhan ATEEQ, Patrick TOUSIGNANT
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Publication number: 20180343282Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for electronic mail systems and service in computing environments are provided herein. In one example, an email service is provided that receives receive requests for endpoint information that correspond to email identities included in the requests. For ones of the requests that indicate invalid email identities, the email service determines responses that conceal validity of the invalid email identities by deriving target endpoint information based at least on the invalid email identities, and provides the responses that indicate the target endpoint information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Deepak Kumar Singh, Sabitha Abraham, Patrick Tousignant
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Publication number: 20180191566Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitting a mobile device to access maintained data. The computer system receives a request from a mobile device. The computer system determines that current mobile device settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data. The computer system sends device settings, representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate accessing the maintained data, to the mobile device. The computer system receives an indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings. The computer system permits the mobile device to access the maintained data in response to receiving the indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David P. Limont, John Allen Atwood, Massimiliano Ciccotosto, Omar Aftab, Patrick Tousignant, Selvaraj Nalliah, Zhidong Yang
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Publication number: 20180139264Abstract: A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan LECROY, Gurashish BRAR, Joe YAP, Victor WANG, Umut ALEV, Vamsi KANAMALURU, Dmitri GAVRILOV, Tali ROTH, Aditi DESAI, Mike BORYSENKO, Ethan BERNSTEIN, Patrick TOUSIGNANT, Fernando GARCIA
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Patent number: 9929904Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitting a mobile device to access maintained data. The computer system receives a request from a mobile device. The computer system determines that current mobile device settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data. The computer system sends device settings, representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate accessing the maintained data, to the mobile device. The computer system receives an indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings. The computer system permits the mobile device to access the maintained data in response to receiving the indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: David P. Limont, John Allen Atwood, Massimiliano Ciccotosto, Omar Aftab, Patrick Tousignant, Selvaraj Nalliah, Zhidong Yang
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Patent number: 9888056Abstract: A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan LeCroy, Gurashish Brar, Joe Yap, Victor Wang, Umut Alev, Vamsi Kanamaluru, Dmitri Gavrilov, Tali Roth, Aditi Desai, Mike Borysenko, Ethan Bernstein, Patrick Tousignant, Fernando Garcia
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Publication number: 20180027024Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for managing policies of a mobile device. In embodiments, a mobile device receives policy containers from a plurality of disparate management agents. Each policy container has one or more policies. Each policy corresponds to a particular category that governs various aspects of the device. The policies described herein may be device wide policies corresponding to various features on the device. The policies may also be data specific policies which dictate how data is stored on and transferred to and from the device. Once the policies are received, a determination is made as to which policy in each category is the most secure policy. The most secure policy for each category is merged to create a global policy that is applied to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Juan V. ESTEVE BALDUCCI, Michael K. HIGASHI, David Paul LIMONT, John Allen ATWOOD, Burhan ATEEQ, Patrick TOUSIGNANT
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Patent number: 9800616Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for managing policies of a mobile device. In embodiments, a mobile device receives policy containers from a plurality of disparate management agents. Each policy container has one or more policies. Each policy corresponds to a particular category that governs various aspects of the device. The policies described herein may be device wide policies corresponding to various features on the device. The policies may also be data specific policies which dictate how data is stored on and transferred to and from the device. Once the policies are received, a determination is made as to which policy in each category is the most secure policy. The most secure policy for each category is merged to create a global policy that is applied to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Michael K. Higashi, David Paul Limont, John Allen Atwood, Burhan Ateeq, Patrick Tousignant
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Publication number: 20170220595Abstract: A synchronization window for synchronizing data for a calendar in a client calendar data store on a calendar data client computer system with data for the calendar in a server calendar data store on a calendar data server computer system can be calculated using a current time. A request for synchronization data for calendar items for the calendar with calendar times that are within the synchronization window can be sent to the calendar data server. One or more responses to the request can be received from the calendar data server. The response(s) can include received records for calendar items that are at least partially within the synchronization window. The received records can include a master record of a recurring calendar item and an instance record of an occurrence of the recurring calendar item. The received records for the calendar items can be incorporated in the client calendar data store.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sina Hakami, Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Patrick Tousignant
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Patent number: 9659027Abstract: A synchronization window for synchronizing data for a calendar in a client calendar data store on a calendar data client computer system with data for the calendar in a server calendar data store on a calendar data server computer system can be calculated using a current time. A request for synchronization data for calendar items for the calendar with calendar times that are within the synchronization window can be sent to the calendar data server. One or more responses to the request can be received from the calendar data server. The response(s) can include received records for calendar items that are at least partially within the synchronization window. The received records can include a master record of a recurring calendar item and an instance record of an occurrence of the recurring calendar item. The received records for the calendar items can be incorporated in the client calendar data store.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sina Hakami, Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Patrick Tousignant
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Patent number: 9413703Abstract: Web-based email systems are enabled to synchronize conversations and conversation properties. Conversations are enumerated to new clients providing folder-specific and global conversation information. After receiving the initial conversation information, clients maintain a conversation state, which is used in updating clients from a web service store through a conversation synchronization command employing an internal application programming interface within the email service.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Patrick Tousignant, Manish Garg, Sridhar Raman
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Publication number: 20160124988Abstract: A synchronization window for synchronizing data for a calendar in a client calendar data store on a calendar data client computer system with data for the calendar in a server calendar data store on a calendar data server computer system can be calculated using a current time. A request for synchronization data for calendar items for the calendar with calendar times that are within the synchronization window can be sent to the calendar data server. One or more responses to the request can be received from the calendar data server. The response(s) can include received records for calendar items that are at least partially within the synchronization window. The received records can include a master record of a recurring calendar item and an instance record of an occurrence of the recurring calendar item. The received records for the calendar items can be incorporated in the client calendar data store.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sina Hakami, Juan V. Esteve Balducci, Patrick Tousignant