Patents by Inventor Armen N. Hamstra

Armen N. Hamstra 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).

  • Entitlement-driven communication of functionality privileges between network-based services
    Patent number: 11075916
    Abstract: In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include storing, in one or more searchable digital data structures, a set of digital entitlements; where an entitlement of the set of digital entitlements identifies a distinct computer functionality and a downstream service that can perform the distinct computer functionality using digital data; storing, in the one or more searchable digital data structures, a digital data entity; where the digital data entity includes a subset of the set of digital entitlements; storing, in the one or more searchable digital data structures, a digital mapping that associates digital data entities with entitlements of the set of digital entitlements; exposing the set of digital entitlements for use by the downstream service; exposing the digital data entity for use by an upstream service; in response to a creation of or an update of an instance of digital data via the upstream service, using the digital mapping to determine to perform the distinct computer functionality using the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Li Zhou, Armen N. Hamstra, Caleb T. Johnson, Yixiao Lu, Sumanth Kolar
  • ENTITLEMENT-DRIVEN COMMUNICATION OF FUNCTIONALITY PRIVILEGES BETWEEN NETWORK-BASED SERVICES
    Publication number: 20200412729
    Abstract: In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include storing, in one or more searchable digital data structures, a set of digital entitlements; where an entitlement of the set of digital entitlements identifies a distinct computer functionality and a downstream service that can perform the distinct computer functionality using digital data; storing, in the one or more searchable digital data structures, a digital data entity; where the digital data entity includes a subset of the set of digital entitlements; storing, in the one or more searchable digital data structures, a digital mapping that associates digital data entities with entitlements of the set of digital entitlements; exposing the set of digital entitlements for use by the downstream service; exposing the digital data entity for use by an upstream service; in response to a creation of or an update of an instance of digital data via the upstream service, using the digital mapping to determine to perform the distinct computer functionality using the
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Li Zhou, Armen N. Hamstra, Caleb T. Johnson, Yixiao Lu, Sumanth Kolar