Patents by Inventor Abbot Moffat

Abbot Moffat 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).

  • Instrumenting configuration and system settings
    Patent number: 8713207
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda
  • Instrumenting Configuration and System Settings
    Publication number: 20130246780
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda
  • Instrumenting configuration and system settings
    Patent number: 8386653
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice
  • Instrumenting Configuration and System Settings
    Publication number: 20080244258
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice
  • Authorization over a distributed and partitioned management system
    Publication number: 20060224591
    Abstract: In a management system, a management server authorizes users to access computing devices based on class space and instance space. The management server further determines whether users are authorized to use particular computing devices and/or applications provided by the particular computing devices. Alerts may also be provided to the users by the management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lorenzo Rizzi, Abbot Moffat, Brijesh Bhatia, Ian Jirka, Sandeep Phadke, Travis Wright, Varsha Jayasimha