Patents by Inventor Danny R. Amirault

Danny R. Amirault 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).

  • Patent number: 9449354
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing licensing for services are provided herein. The method includes determining, via a service partner, whether a user exists in a user provisioning cache and whether the user is provisioned to use a service provided by the service partner. The method also includes querying a licensing service to determine updates to the user provisioning cache if the user does not exist in the user provisioning cache or is not provisioned to use the service, or both. Further, the method includes determining whether the user is provisioned to use the service based on the updates to the user provisioning cache and, if the user is provisioned to use the service, allowing the user access to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Sanjay Garg, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault
  • Patent number: 9384516
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing licensing for services are provided herein. The method includes determining, via a service partner, whether a user exists in a user provisioning cache and whether the user is provisioned to use a service provided by the service partner. The method also includes querying a licensing service to determine updates to the user provisioning cache if the user does not exist in the user provisioning cache or is not provisioned to use the service, or both. Further, the method includes determining whether the user is provisioned to use the service based on the updates to the user provisioning cache and, if the user is provisioned to use the service, allowing the user access to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Sanjay Garg, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault
  • Patent number: 9165332
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for licensing an application using multiple forms of licensing are provided herein. The method includes providing a first form of a license to a first computing device via a licensing service and providing a second form of the license to a second computing device via the licensing service. The method also includes determining a first state of the first form of the license and a second state of the second form of the license, synchronizing the first state and the second state to form a combined license state, and adjusting conditions of the license based on the combined license state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Abu Miah
  • Publication number: 20150007340
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Patent number: 8832851
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz