Patents by Inventor Jonathan P. Horton

Jonathan P. Horton 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).

  • Parental consent service
    Patent number: 7571466
    Abstract: A user profile having consent information regarding a network server for a second party is created. Such consent information is received from a first party and stored in the user profile of the second party. The second party may access the network server if the consent information stored in the user profile of the second party shows that the first party has provided consent. The second party may not access the network server if the consent information stored in the user profile of the second party shows that the first party has denied consent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher E. Mitchell, Sylvia K. Mollerstrom, Jonathan P. Horton, Wei-Quiang Michael Guo, Steven M. Cellini
  • In-line sign in
    Patent number: 7251827
    Abstract: A method of in-line sign in that allows a user to sign into a first server based on a sign-in methodology of a second server is disclosed. The method uses, among other things, a nonce and approved URL list to prevent spoofing and replay attack. Additionally, the method allows error messages that occur during the authentication process to be displayed to the user having the look and feel of the first server, despite using the authentication process of the second server. A method of dual or distributed authentication is also disclosed wherein the user need only to input the login id and password once and wherein the two authentication processes need not exchange the user's password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Wei-Quiang Guo, Jonathan P. Horton
  • Parental consent service
    Publication number: 20020120866
    Abstract: A user profile having consent information regarding a network server for a second party is created. Such consent information is received from a first party and stored in the user profile of the second party. The second party may access the network server if the consent information stored in the user profile of the second party shows that the first party has provided consent. The second party may not access the network server if the consent information stored in the user profile of the second party shows that the first party has denied consent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher E. Mitchell, Sylvia K. Mollerstrom, Jonathan P. Horton, Wei-Quiang Michael Guo, Steven M. Cellini