Patents by Inventor Matthias Liebmann

Matthias Liebmann 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).

  • Systems and processes for managing policy change in a distributed enterprise
    Patent number: 8171522
    Abstract: A method for managing changes to policies in an enterprise includes receiving a systems policy change request to change a systems policy that implements a published enterprise policy, determining whether the requested systems policy change complies with the published enterprise policy, and updating the systems policy according to the requested systems policy change if the requested systems policy change complies with the published enterprise policy. A system for managing policies in an enterprise includes a policy management module configured for receiving published policies and generating corresponding systems policies having data for implementing the published policies, and a policy library storing the published policies and the systems policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karan Vasishth, Kimberley Ann Hunter, Laurie A. Brown, Mark David Lawrence, Matthias Liebmann