Patents by Inventor Eric Fitzgerald

Eric Fitzgerald 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).

  • Special group logon tracking
    Patent number: 7690036
    Abstract: A method of generating a computer user activity log for a user belonging to a specially monitored group includes allowing a user to logon to a local computer. The local computer verifying the user account credentials and creating a user logon session. A token is created by the local computer for identification of any group membership with which the user associated and also having the user access privileges. The group information in the token is compared with a specially monitored group list. The specially monitored group list may be obtained from a domain server or may be configured locally. If the user has membership in the specially monitored group, then a special logon session is created and activities of the user are recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Fitzgerald, Raghavendra Malpani
  • Special group logon tracking
    Publication number: 20070136798
    Abstract: A method of generating a computer user activity log for a user belonging to a specially monitored group includes allowing a user to logon to a local computer. The local computer verifying the user account credentials and creating a user logon session. A token is created by the local computer for identification of any group membership with which the user associated and also having the user access privileges. The group information in the token is compared with a specially monitored group list. The specially monitored group list may be obtained from a domain server or may be configured locally. If the user has membership in the specially monitored group, then a special logon session is created and activities of the user are recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Fitzgerald, Raghavendra Malpani