Patents by Inventor Alexander MacLeod

Alexander MacLeod 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).

  • Publication number: 20160364576
    Abstract: Large scale system operation may be provided. Upon receiving an action request from a user, a determination may be made as to whether the user requires elevated permissions to perform the action request. In response to determining that the user requires elevated permissions to perform the action request, the action request may be forwarded to a lockbox for evaluation and a permission response may be received from the lockbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander MacLeod, Andrey Lukyanov, Colin Nash, Jaskaran Singh, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Vivek Sharma
  • Patent number: 9460303
    Abstract: Large scale system operation may be provided. Upon receiving an action request from a user, a determination may be made as to whether the user requires elevated permissions to perform the action request. In response to determining that the user requires elevated permissions to perform the action request, the action request may be forwarded to a lockbox for evaluation and a permission response may be received from the lockbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander MacLeod, Andrey Lukyanov, Colin Nash, Jaskaran Singh, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Vivek Sharma
  • Publication number: 20160080406
    Abstract: Anomalous activity is detected using event information that is received from accounts from within an online service. Generally, anomalous activity is detected by comparing a baseline profile that includes past event information for accounts of the online service with a recent profile that includes recent event information for the accounts. Anomalous activity is detected when the recent profile shows that one or more events are occurring more frequently as compared to the occurrence of the event the associated baseline profile. The events that are recorded and used in the anomaly detection may include all or a portion of events that are monitored by the online service. One or more reports may also be automatically generated and provided to one or more users to show activity that may be considered anomalous activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Art Sadovsky, Rustam Lalkaka, Vivek Sharma, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Alexander Macleod
  • Patent number: 9210183
    Abstract: Anomalous activity is detected using event information that is received from accounts from within an online service. Generally, anomalous activity is detected by comparing a baseline profile that includes past event information for accounts of the online service with a recent profile that includes recent event information for the accounts. Anomalous activity is detected when the recent profile shows that one or more events are occurring more frequently as compared to the occurrence of the event the associated baseline profile. The events that are recorded and used in the anomaly detection may include all or a portion of events that are monitored by the online service. One or more reports may also be automatically generated and provided to one or more users to show activity that may be considered anomalous activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Art Sadovsky, Rustam Lalkaka, Vivek Sharma, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Alexander Macleod
  • Publication number: 20150180894
    Abstract: Anomalous activity is detected using event information that is received from accounts from within an online service. Generally, anomalous activity is detected by comparing a baseline profile that includes past event information for accounts of the online service with a recent profile that includes recent event information for the accounts. Anomalous activity is detected when the recent profile shows that one or more events are occurring more frequently as compared to the occurrence of the event the associated baseline profile. The events that are recorded and used in the anomaly detection may include all or a portion of events that are monitored by the online service. One or more reports may also be automatically generated and provided to one or more users to show activity that may be considered anomalous activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: ART SADOVSKY, RUSTAM LALKAKA, VIVEK SHARMA, RAJMOHAN RAJAGOPALAN, ALEXANDER MACLEOD
  • Patent number: 8572679
    Abstract: A system is provided for employing an orchestrator to deploy and implement changes to a system. A change request may be a system build, upgrade, and patches for updating a subset of files within the system. The orchestrator may initially perform a security check and a validation check on a received change request. Upon receiving validation and approval, the change request may be deployed and propagated through a series of deployment scopes. The deployment scopes may become increasingly larger to extensively test the applied change before fully implementing the change on the target system. The orchestrator may submit the applied change to a validation component for getting validation of the change within the deployment scope after each applied change within a deployment scope. After the change request has been deployed through the deployment scopes and validated, the change request may be deployed to the target system and fully implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ruiyi Wang, Jaskaran Singh, Vinod Kumar, Shane Brady, Ann Williams, Alexander MacLeod
  • Publication number: 20130239166
    Abstract: Large scale system operation may be provided. Upon receiving an action request from a user, a determination may be made as to whether the user requires elevated permissions to perform the action request. In response to determining that the user requires elevated permissions to perform the action request, the action request may be forwarded to a lockbox for evaluation and a permission response may be received from the lockbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander MacLeod, Andrey Lukyanov, Colin Nash, Jaskaran Singh, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Vivek Sharma
  • Publication number: 20130133024
    Abstract: Recovery action approval may be provided. A request to perform an action may be received from a user. If the user is not always authorized to request the action, then the action may be performed if a policy rule permits the user to request the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander MacLeod, Andrey Lukyanov, Pretish Abraham, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Shane Brady
  • Patent number: 4168883
    Abstract: A laser mounting package includes a ferrule containing an optical fiber held in it by jewels at each end of the fiber, the laser being mounted adjacent one end of the fiber. The laser is enclosed by an outer housing and the ferrule is mateable with a ferrule ended optical fiber transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Assignee: International Standard Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Alexander MacLeod
  • Patent number: 4166668
    Abstract: A mounting arrangement for a surface-acting solid state device (e.g. a PIN diode, an avalanche diode or an LED) and for coupling the device to an optical fiber transmission line. The arrangement includes a housing for the device header and the end of a jewelled ferrule containing a length of a first optical fiber transmission line. One end of the first transmission line projects from the ferrule and is aligned with the device. The other end of the ferrule mates with a ferrule ended second optical fiber transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Assignee: International Standard Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Alexander MacLeod