Patents by Inventor Nirmal Rajesh Soy

Nirmal Rajesh Soy 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).

  • Conditional access to services based on device claims
    Patent number: 9444848
    Abstract: Providing access to one or more resources to a user device. A method includes at a user device, registering with an identity service to obtain an identity credential. The method further includes at the user device, registering with a policy management service by presenting the identity credential. The method further includes at the user device, providing an indication of current state of the user device to the policy management service. The policy management service can then indicate to the identity service the compliance level of the user device. The method further includes the user device receiving a token from the identity service based on the policy management level of the user device as compared to a policy set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Samuel Green, Farhan Haleem Qureshi, Sucharit SenGupta, Nirmal Rajesh Soy, Michael J. Healy
  • Conditional Access to Services Based on Device Claims
    Publication number: 20160088017
    Abstract: Providing access to one or more resources to a user device. A method includes at a user device, registering with an identity service to obtain an identity credential. The method further includes at the user device, registering with a policy management service by presenting the identity credential. The method further includes at the user device, providing an indication of current state of the user device to the policy management service. The policy management service can then indicate to the identity service the compliance level of the user device. The method further includes the user device receiving a token from the identity service based on the policy management level of the user device as compared to a policy set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Samuel Green, Farhan Haleem Qureshi, Sucharit SenGupta, Nirmal Rajesh Soy, Michael J. Healy
  • Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system
    Patent number: 8245218
    Abstract: An application programming interface (API) for administering the distribution of software updates on an update service node is presented. The API provides a plurality of interface calls through which an administrator can establish rules by which software updates available to the update service node are distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Giambalvo, Jay Thaler, Kenneth Showman, David B Dehghan, Thomas A Sponheim, Renan Jeffereis, Kristopher J Owens, Carey Tanner, Quan Wang, Nicole A Hamilton, Dennis Craig Marl, Nirmal Rajesh Soy
  • Update distribution system architecture and method for distributing software
    Patent number: 7853609
    Abstract: A hierarchical software update distribution system and method for distributing software updates is presented. The update distribution system includes a root update service node and at least one update service node. In an update distribution system, each update service node, except the root update service node, has one parent update service node. Each update service node may function as a parent update service node to child update service nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Dehghan, Edward Reus, Nirmal Rajesh Soy, Lie Ma, Marc Shepard, Jianbo Hou, David Hennessey, Varadarajan Thiruvillamalai, Vidyasankar Raman, Thottam R. Sriram, Jason J. Roberts, Mazhar Mohammed, Xiang He