Patents by Inventor Luke T. Abrams

Luke T. Abrams 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).

  • Communicating state information to legacy clients using legacy protocols
    Patent number: 9246894
    Abstract: When a user account is in an alternate (fault) state, communication or sync between an application provider and a device or client application typically is interrupted. When parties do not support rich fault messaging, communication of the reason for the interruption and remediation steps has been impossible. An application server provides rich fault messaging using applications that do not provide explicit error messaging and protocols that do not provide explicit error messaging without changing either the application or the protocol by additional interactions between an identity provider and the application server. The application server uses authentication state information provided by the identity server to generate a notification sync event that appears to the application and the protocol to be a normal sync event. The notification sync event is used to provide the user with information needed to determine what the problem with the account is and how to fix it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Ariel N. Gordon, David J. Steeves, Luke T. Abrams, Pui-Yin Wong, Krishna C. Vitaldevara
  • COMMUNICATING STATE INFORMATION TO LEGACY CLIENTS USING LEGACY PROTOCOLS
    Publication number: 20140123257
    Abstract: When a user account is in an alternate (fault) state, communication or sync between an application provider and a device or client application typically is interrupted. When parties do not support rich fault messaging, communication of the reason for the interruption and remediation steps has been impossible. An application server provides rich fault messaging using applications that do not provide explicit error messaging and protocols that do not provide explicit error messaging without changing either the application or the protocol by additional interactions between an identity provider and the application server. The application server uses authentication state information provided by the identity server to generate a notification sync event that appears to the application and the protocol to be a normal sync event. The notification sync event is used to provide the user with information needed to determine what the problem with the account is and how to fix it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ariel N. Gordon, David J. Steeves, Luke T. Abrams, Pui-Yin Wong, Krishna C. Vitaldevara