Patents by Inventor Mark T. K. Looi

Mark T. K. Looi 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).

  • Authenticating third party products via a secure extensibility model
    Patent number: 7730539
    Abstract: Secure extensibility access to application program interfaces (APIs) is described. Techniques are described in which trust indicia are used determine relative trustworthiness of an extensibility module attempting to access of APIs of an application module. Access to APIs of the application module is managed based upon trustworthiness of the extensibility module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Elissa E. S. Murphy, Mark T. K. Looi, Laurent Vernhes