Patents by Inventor Michael Joseph Healy

Michael Joseph Healy 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: 11368361
    Abstract: A system and method for providing stringent tamper resistant protection against changes to key system security features. The tamper protection is configured such that any changes to the policy can only occur from a configuration manager console, thereby preventing local device admin users or other malicious actors from altering the setting. Thus, tamper protection locks the selected service and prevents security settings from being changed through third-party apps and methods. When a system administrator enables the feature for an enterprise's workstations, only administrators will be able to change the service settings across a company's computers. The tamper protection policy is digitally signed in the backend before being deployed to endpoints, and the endpoint verifies the validity and intent of the policy, establishing that it is a signed package that only security operations personnel with the necessary administrator rights can control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Ronald Shadbolt, Michael Joseph Healy, Shweta Jha, Gokhan Ozhan, Adrian Mihail Marinescu, Alemeshet Yismaw Alemu, Karthik Selvaraj, Milind Amrutrao Pawar, Vladimir Soroka, Hayk Hovsepyan, Chaohong Ou, Patanjal Digant Vyas, David Torosyan
  • Publication number: 20210385129
    Abstract: A system and method for providing stringent tamper resistant protection against changes to key system security features. The tamper protection is configured such that any changes to the policy can only occur from a configuration manager console, thereby preventing local device admin users or other malicious actors from altering the setting. Thus, tamper protection locks the selected service and prevents security settings from being changed through third-party apps and methods. When a system administrator enables the feature for an enterprise's workstations, only administrators will be able to change the service settings across a company's computers. The tamper protection policy is digitally signed in the backend before being deployed to endpoints, and the endpoint verifies the validity and intent of the policy, establishing that it is a signed package that only security operations personnel with the necessary administrator rights can control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Ronald SHADBOLT, Michael Joseph HEALY, Shweta JHA, Gokhan OZHAN, Adrian Mihail MARINESCU, Alemeshet Yismaw ALEMU, Karthik SELVARAJ, Milind Amrutrao PAWAR, Vladimir SOROKA, Hayk HOVSEPYAN, Chaohong OU, Patanjal Digant VYAS, David TOROSYAN
  • Patent number: 10979290
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for monitoring contextual and performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending update information to the device. An interface component can receive, from the client, contextual information indicating an operating environment of the client and performance information that is associated with one or more operations being performed by the client based on the operating environment, and send, based on correlation information, update information to the client. Further, a service component can to infer a relationship between the contextual information and the performance information to obtain the correlation information. In other embodiments, a client can populate a cache with portion(s) of the contextual information to obtain cached information, and send at least a portion of the cached information to a system including one or more aspects of the service component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Reus, Mario Goertzel, Scott Field, Michael Joseph Healy, Joseph Dadzie, David Kays, John Douceur, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
  • Publication number: 20170099185
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for monitoring contextual and performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending update information to the device. An interface component can receive, from the client, contextual information indicating an operating environment of the client and performance information that is associated with one or more operations being performed by the client based on the operating environment, and send, based on correlation information, update information to the client. Further, a service component can to infer a relationship between the contextual information and the performance information to obtain the correlation information. In other embodiments, a client can populate a cache with portion(s) of the contextual information to obtain cached information, and send at least a portion of the cached information to a system including one or more aspects of the service component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Edward Reus, Mario Goertzel, Scott Field, Michael Joseph Healy, Joseph Dadzie, David Kays, John Douceur, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
  • Patent number: 9531588
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for monitoring contextual and performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending update information to the device. An interface component can receive, from the client, contextual information indicating an operating environment of the client and performance information that is associated with one or more operations being performed by the client based on the operating environment, and send, based on correlation information, update information to the client. Further, a service component can to infer a relationship between the contextual information and the performance information to obtain the correlation information. In other embodiments, a client can populate a cache with portion(s) of the contextual information to obtain cached information, and send at least a portion of the cached information to a system including one or more aspects of the service component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Reus, Mario Goertzel, Scott Field, Michael Joseph Healy, Joseph Dadzie, David Kays, John Douceur, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
  • Patent number: 8813172
    Abstract: Data management techniques are provided for handling information resources. A data management process can account for attributes of information resources by analyzing or interpreting the workspace location, source, channel and device associated with an information resource, and effectuating policies, based on the attributes. Rules govern the attribute determination and policies for access restriction to the information resource. The attributes and policies determined are tagged to the information resource and is dynamically updated based on the attributes related to the information resource within different workspaces, such as a corporate workspace and a personal workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Reus, Scott Field, Michael Joseph Healy, Joseph Dadzie, Srivatsan Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20130160072
    Abstract: Data management techniques are provided for handling information resources. A data management process can account for attributes of information resources by analyzing or interpreting the workspace location, source, channel and device associated with an information resource, and effectuating policies, based on the attributes. Rules govern the attribute determination and policies for access restriction to the information resource. The attributes and policies determined are tagged to the information resource and is dynamically updated based on the attributes related to the information resource within different workspaces, such as a corporate workspace and a personal workspace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Reus, Scott Field, Michael Joseph Healy, Joseph Dadzie, Srivatsan Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20130159500
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for monitoring contextual and performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending update information to the device. An interface component can receive, from the client, contextual information indicating an operating environment of the client and performance information that is associated with one or more operations being performed by the client based on the operating environment, and send, based on correlation information, update information to the client. Further, a service component can to infer a relationship between the contextual information and the performance information to obtain the correlation information. In other embodiments, a client can populate a cache with portion(s) of the contextual information to obtain cached information, and send at least a portion of the cached information to a system including one or more aspects of the service component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Reus, Mario Goertzel, Scott Field, Michael Joseph Healy, Joseph Dadzie, David Kays, John Douceur, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer