Patents by Inventor Joshua W. Dunn
Joshua W. Dunn 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).
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Patent number: 9916150Abstract: Updates for an enterprise's software product are made available to user devices on-line, even when network resources of the enterprise are unavailable. Software update sets and notifications concerning the update sets may be published by an enterprise for consumption by content distribution partners of the enterprise and parties not affiliated with the enterprise. Each abstraction relating to an update, including update notifications and update sets may include a cryptographic signature for later use in authenticating the source of the abstraction. Update notifications also may include information indicative of: available update sets; and network locations at which the update sets can be accessed. Further, an update notification may be configured with a time-to-live (TTL) value indicating a value of time after which the notification expires. TTL values give the enterprise some control over the distribution of update sets by limiting the lifespan of the update notifications corresponding to the update sets.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn
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Patent number: 9483636Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for checking the integrity of applications installed on a computing device and preventing the launch of applications that appear to have been tampered with or modified. In accordance with embodiments, the content of an application is validated at the time the application is to be launched, but before the launch has actually occurred. In accordance with additional embodiments, integrity protection can also be extended to content that is generated by an application (e.g., documents or other files generated by the application), thereby enabling applications to write their own files and data with the same degree of integrity protection.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sermet Iskin, Axel Andrejs, Yunus Kilic, Joshua W. Dunn
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Publication number: 20150205949Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for checking the integrity of applications installed on a computing device and preventing the launch of applications that appear to have been tampered with or modified. In accordance with embodiments, the content of an application is validated at the time the application is to be launched, but before the launch has actually occurred. In accordance with additional embodiments, integrity protection can also be extended to content that is generated by an application (e.g., documents or other files generated by the application), thereby enabling applications to write their own files and data with the same degree of integrity protection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sermet Iskin, Axel Andrejs, Yunus Kilic, Joshua W. Dunn
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Publication number: 20140373004Abstract: Updates for an enterprise's software product are made available to user devices on-line, even when network resources of the enterprise are unavailable. Software update sets and notifications concerning the update sets may be published by an enterprise for consumption by content distribution partners of the enterprise and parties not affiliated with the enterprise. Each abstraction relating to an update, including update notifications and update sets may include a cryptographic signature for later use in authenticating the source of the abstraction. Update notifications also may include information indicative of: available update sets; and network locations at which the update sets can be accessed. Further, an update notification may be configured with a time-to-live (TTL) value indicating a value of time after which the notification expires. TTL values give the enterprise some control over the distribution of update sets by limiting the lifespan of the update notifications corresponding to the update sets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn
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Patent number: 8775572Abstract: Updates for an enterprise's software product are made available to user devices on-line, even when network resources of the enterprise are unavailable. Software update sets and notifications concerning the update sets may be published by an enterprise for consumption by content distribution partners of the enterprise and parties not affiliated with the enterprise. Each abstraction relating to an update, including update notifications and update sets may include a cryptographic signature for later use in authenticating the source of the abstraction. Update notifications also may include information indicative of: available update sets; and network locations at which the update sets can be accessed. Further, an update notification may be configured with a time-to-live (TTL) value indicating a value of time after which the notification expires. TTL values give the enterprise some control over the distribution of update sets by limiting the lifespan of the update notifications corresponding to the update sets.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn
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Publication number: 20130160126Abstract: A system is described for remediating a malicious modern application installed on an end user device. In an embodiment, the system includes an antimalware program executing on the end user device that can detect and attempt to remediate the malicious modern application, an operating system executing on the end user device that is configured to interact with the antimalware program for the purpose of facilitating the establishment of a connection between the end user device and an application support system in response to determining that the antimalware program has detected and attempted to remediate the malicious modern application, and the application support system that can perform remediation operations beyond those that can be performed by the antimalware program.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Vishal Kapoor, Jason J. Joyce, Gregory W. Nichols, Joshua W. Dunn, Michael S. Jarrett, Adrian M. Marinescu, Marc E. Seinfeld, Axel Andrejs, Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram
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Publication number: 20070299940Abstract: Updates for an enterprise's software product are made available to user devices on-line, even when network resources of the enterprise are unavailable. Software update sets and notifications concerning the update sets may be published by an enterprise for consumption by content distribution partners of the enterprise and parties not affiliated with the enterprise. Each abstraction relating to an update, including update notifications and update sets may include a cryptographic signature for later use in authenticating the source of the abstraction. Update notifications also may include information indicative of: available update sets; and network locations at which the update sets can be accessed. Further, an update notification may be configured with a time-to-live (TTL) value indicating a value of time after which the notification expires. TTL values give the enterprise some control over the distribution of update sets by limiting the lifespan of the update notifications corresponding to the update sets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2006Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn