Patents by Inventor Brandon J. Simons

Brandon J. Simons 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).

  • HIERARCHICAL DATA SECURITY
    Publication number: 20160205081
    Abstract: A computing system comprises, in one example, a user interface component configured to generate a data security configuration interface that displays user input mechanisms and receives user configuration inputs, and a data security component configured to control user data access. The data security component comprises a plurality of configurable security objects arranged in a security hierarchy. The configuration inputs associate at least one user with each security object in the security hierarchy to define a data access relationship between the users associated with the security objects. The data security component comprises a data access component configured to receive a data access request from a given user, identify a set of users that are associated with security objects in the security hierarchy relative to a security object to which the given user is associated, and provide the given user with access to data objects that are associated with the set of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Brandon J. Simons, Mahesh Hariharan, Elliot S. Lewis, Devendra Kumar, Atul Shenoy
  • Merging modifications to user interface components while preserving user customizations
    Patent number: 8302014
    Abstract: An application displays a user interface (UI) component. A client can apply customizations to this UI component. After the client applies customizations to the UI component, the client modifies a solution set containing solutions that modify the UI component. After the client modifies the solution set, the application displays a new version of the UI component. Modifications provided by the solutions in the solution set are applied to the new version of the UI component. In addition, the customizations remain applied to the UI component without the client manually re-applying the customizations to the UI component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Humberto Lezama Guadarrama, Andrew N. Magee, Tyler M. Peelen, James S. Head, Ronghua Jin, Rubaiyat Khan, Richard L. Dickinson, John C. Robinson, Mesganaw Anteneh, Brandon J. Simons, Nicholas J. Patrick, Vicentiu Adrian Omusoru, Ankini Shah, Atul Shenoy, Bharath Swaminathan
  • Merging Modifications to User Interface Components While Preserving User Customizations
    Publication number: 20110307798
    Abstract: An application displays a user interface (UI) component. A client can apply customizations to this UI component. After the client applies customizations to the UI component, the client modifies a solution set containing solutions that modify the UI component. After the client modifies the solution set, the application displays a new version of the UI component. Modifications provided by the solutions in the solution set are applied to the new version of the UI component. In addition, the customizations remain applied to the UI component without the client manually re-applying the customizations to the UI component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Humberto Lezama Guadarrama, Andrew N. Magee, Tyler M. Peelen, James S. Head, Ronghua Jin, Rubaiyat Khan, Richard L. Dickinson, John Claytor Robinson, Mesganaw Anteneh, Brandon J. Simons, Nicholas J. Patrick, Vicentiu Adrian Omusoru, Ankini Shah, Atul Shenoy, Bharath Swaminathan