Patents by Inventor Renee M. Rinker

Renee M. Rinker 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).

  • Automated secure key transfer
    Patent number: 7260224
    Abstract: A provisioning service datacenter provides a key transfer from a web service datacenter over a first secure channel. In certain versions, the provisioning service datacenter transmits an email having a hashed link to a partner site in response to a key request provided by the partner site. Certain roles at the partner site can respond to the email, thereby returning the hashed link to the provisioning service datacenter. Thereupon, in certain versions, the request is forwarded to a web service datacenter, and a secure channel is provided over which a key can be forwarded to the provisioning service datacenter, and thereupon to the partner site. In certain versions, the key is used to establish a second secure channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ken L. Ingle, Kerstin Weinberg, Li-Fen Wu, Renee M. Rinker, Olga B. Zvereva, Nicholas D. Judge