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).

  • Patent number: 9916150
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn
  • Patent number: 9483636
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sermet Iskin, Axel Andrejs, Yunus Kilic, Joshua W. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20150205949
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sermet Iskin, Axel Andrejs, Yunus Kilic, Joshua W. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20140373004
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn
  • Patent number: 8775572
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20130160126
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20070299940
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Abolade Gbadegesin, Mario C. Goertzel, Kenneth A. Showman, Joshua W. Dunn