Patents by Inventor NICHOLAS PATRICK BROWN

NICHOLAS PATRICK BROWN 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).

  • Automatic reduction of privilege role assignments
    Patent number: 11283809
    Abstract: A least-privilege role is automatically assigned to a service principal in order to ensure that a service principal is able to perform actions on a resource of a subscription in a multi-tenant environment as intended without additional access and usage rights. The assignment of the least-privilege role is based on actions previously performed on the resources of a subscription by the service principal that match those actions within a role having the bare minimum permissions needed to perform those actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Vera Bogdanich Espina, Nicholas Patrick Brown, Varun Sharma
  • AUTOMATIC REDUCTION OF PRIVILEGE ROLE ASSIGNMENTS
    Publication number: 20210051153
    Abstract: A least-privilege role is automatically assigned to a service principal in order to ensure that a service principal is able to perform actions on a resource of a subscription in a multi-tenant environment as intended without additional access and usage rights. The assignment of the least-privilege role is based on actions previously performed on the resources of a subscription by the service principal that match those actions within a role having the bare minimum permissions needed to perform those actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: VERA BOGDANICH ESPINA, NICHOLAS PATRICK BROWN, VARUN SHARMA