Patents by Inventor George Z. Li

George Z. Li 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).

  • Labeling of data objects to apply and enforce policies
    Patent number: 8127133
    Abstract: One or more labels are associated with a data object. One or more policies are associated with each of the labels. Based on the labels associated with the data objects, the associated policies are dispatched to policy decision engines to take one or more actions to enforce the policy. The labels, and the policies associated with the labels, are chosen by a business administrator within an enterprise, and are implemented by an Information Technology (IT) administrator. The association between labels and polices allows the policy to be applied to an object to be decoupled from the characterization of the nature of the object, or its purpose and/or role within an enterprise, business purpose and/or context of the object. Examples of policies are: access, backup, retention, isolation, audit, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David B. Cross, Satyajit Nath, George Z. Li, Tanmoy Dutta, Sunil Gottumukkala
  • LABELING OF DATA OBJECTS TO APPLY AND ENFORCE POLICIES
    Publication number: 20080184329
    Abstract: One or more labels are associated with a data object. One or more policies are associated with each of the labels. Based on the labels associated with the data objects, the associated policies are dispatched to policy decision engines to take one or more actions to enforce the policy. The labels, and the policies associated with the labels, are chosen by a business administrator within an enterprise, and are implemented by an Information Technology (IT) administrator. The association between labels and polices allows the policy to be applied to an object to be decoupled from the characterization of the nature of the object, or its purpose and/or role within an enterprise, business purpose and/or context of the object. Examples of policies are: access, backup, retention, isolation, audit, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David B. Cross, Satyajit Nath, George Z. Li, Tanmoy Dutta, Sunil P. Gottumukkala