Patents by Inventor Eric Wai Ho Lau

Eric Wai Ho Lau 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: 10320796
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a method for securing a partner service. The method can include receiving a request, wherein the request comprises a unique value, to access the partner service, wherein the request is received from a browser client for a partner application and determining that a user is authorized to access the partner application, the partner application generating a token that associates the user with the partner application. The method can also include generating a signature for the token, the signature to enable the partner service to independently regenerate the signature, the token comprising an identifier for the partner application enabling the partner service to detect which partner application generates the token and sending the token with the signature to the browser client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Wai Ho Lau, Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Ronald H. Jones, Jr., Derrick Isaacson, Ralph E. Lemke, Peter Wu
  • Publication number: 20170083721
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for sustained data protection. In particular, a data protector may define a set of access levels associated with content within data using a set of access policies (e.g., a partial access level to inventory data for an inventory server, a full access level to inventory data and billing data for a shopping website server, etc.). The data protector may secure (e.g., encrypt) the data to create protected data, so that clients may be unable to access content of the protected data without obtaining access through the data protector. In this way, the data protector may selectively provide clients with access to content within the protected data according to respective access levels for the different clients (e.g., access to inventory data, but not billing data, may be provided to the inventory server by the data protector).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Suchter, Ho John Lee, Charles Converse Carson, Scott Alexander Banachowski, Yuri Romanenko, Eric Wai Ho Lau
  • Patent number: 9542536
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for sustained data protection. In particular, a data protector may define a set of access levels associated with content within data using a set of access policies (e.g., a partial access level to inventory data for an inventory server, a full access level to inventory data and billing data for a shopping website server, etc.). The data protector may secure (e.g., encrypt) the data to create protected data, so that clients may be unable to access content of the protected data without obtaining access through the data protector. In this way, the data protector may selectively provide clients with access to content within the protected data according to respective access levels for the different clients (e.g., access to inventory data, but not billing data, may be provided to the inventory server by the data protector).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Suchter, Ho John Lee, Charles Carson, Scott Banachowski, Yuri Romanenko, Eric Wai Ho Lau
  • Publication number: 20150365419
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a method for securing a partner service. The method can include receiving a request, wherein the request comprises a unique value, to access the partner service, wherein the request is received from a browser client for a partner application and determining that a user is authorized to access the partner application, the partner application generating a token that associates the user with the partner application. The method can also include generating a signature for the token, the signature to enable the partner service to independently regenerate the signature, the token comprising an identifier for the partner application enabling the partner service to detect which partner application generates the token and sending the token with the signature to the browser client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Wai Ho Lau, Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Ronald H. Jones, JR., Derrick Isaacson, Ralph E. Lemke, Peter Wu
  • Patent number: 9071616
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a method for securing a partner-enabled web service. The method includes receiving a request to access the partner-enabled web service. The request is received from a browser client for a partner application. The browser client is associated with a user. Additionally, the method includes determining that the user is authorized to access the partner application. The method further includes generating a token that associates the user with the partner application. Also, the method includes sending the token to the browser client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Wai Ho Lau, Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Ronald H. Jones, Jr., Derrick Isaacson, Ralph E. Lemke, Peter Wu
  • Patent number: 8613068
    Abstract: Various embodiments utilize redirection techniques to refresh an authenticated session for a web-based executable operated across multiple domains. In at least some embodiments, the redirection techniques utilize a hidden inline frame (“i-frame”) to refresh an authenticated session. In some embodiments, polling is utilized to detect the end of a redirection sequence and a refreshed authenticated session while in other embodiments, an authenticated session is assumed to be refreshed after the expiration of a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Wai Ho Lau, Peter Wu, Jeremy Hay
  • Publication number: 20130185811
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for sustained data protection. In particular, a data protector may define a set of access levels associated with content within data using a set of access policies (e.g., a partial access level to inventory data for an inventory server, a full access level to inventory data and billing data for a shopping website server, etc.). The data protector may secure (e.g., encrypt) the data to create protected data, so that clients may be unable to access content of the protected data without obtaining access through the data protector. In this way, the data protector may selectively provide clients with access to content within the protected data according to respective access levels for the different clients (e.g., access to inventory data, but not billing data, may be provided to the inventory server by the data protector).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Suchter, Ho John Lee, Charles Carson, Scott Banachowski, Yuri Romanenko, Eric Wai Ho Lau
  • Publication number: 20130185810
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for controlling the serialization of data into a serialized structure and/or the deserialization of data from the serialized structure. That is, a first client may request serialization of data comprising one or more entities. Entities that the first client has permission to serialize may be serialized for inclusion within a serialized structure, which may be encrypted. A set of deserialization permissions specifying which entities may be accessed by which clients may be defined for the serialized structure. In this way, one or more entities within the serialized structure may be deserialized for a second client based upon evaluating the second client against the set of deserialization permissions to determine which entities the second client has permission to access. The serialized structure may otherwise remain encrypted to provide sustained protection of serialized data comprised therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Suchter, Eric Wai Ho Lau, Yuri Romanenko, Adam Sapek
  • Publication number: 20130036460
    Abstract: Various embodiments utilize redirection techniques to refresh an authenticated session for a web-based executable operated across multiple domains. In at least some embodiments, the redirection techniques utilize a hidden inline frame (“i-frame”) to refresh an authenticated session. In some embodiments, polling is utilized to detect the end of a redirection sequence and a refreshed authenticated session while in other embodiments, an authenticated session is assumed to be refreshed after the expiration of a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Wai Ho Lau, Peter Wu, Jeremy Hay
  • Publication number: 20120131326
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a method for securing a partner-enabled web service. The method includes receiving a request to access the partner-enabled web service. The request is received from a browser client for a partner application. The browser client is associated with a user. Additionally, the method includes determining that the user is authorized to access the partner application. The method further includes generating a token that associates the user with the partner application. Also, the method includes sending the token to the browser client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Wai Ho Lau, Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Ronald H. Jones, JR., Derrick Isaacson, Ralph E. Lemke, Peter Wu