Patents by Inventor S. Morris Brown

S. Morris 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).

  • Patent number: 8832430
    Abstract: A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adam E. Zilinskas, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, S. Morris Brown
  • Publication number: 20130332865
    Abstract: A user interface that includes an activity initiation area that includes an activity initiation control that may be interacted with in order to initiate respective activities, and a notification area in which one or more notifications related to the activity may be displayed. The notification area is spatially related to the activity initiation control in a fixed manner for multiple activities. The activity initiation area may appear along a lower boundary of the display much as a partially pulled out drawer as viewed from above. The notification area may also appear along the lower boundary of the display, but extend further vertically, much as a fully pulled out drawer as viewed from above. This helps give a contextual understanding of the subject matter of the notifications in relation to the activities that have been, or may be, initiated from the activity initiation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Danton, Jonah B. Sterling, Michael Bach, Jefferson King, Jesse David Francisco, Adam Mohamed Abdelhamed, Mark S. D'Urso, Jonathan Harris, Karandeep Singh Anand, Bharat Ahluwalia, S. Morris Brown, William J. Staples, Dina-Marie Ledonne Supino
  • Publication number: 20110066848
    Abstract: A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam E. Zilinskas, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, S. Morris Brown
  • Patent number: 7809940
    Abstract: A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adam E. Zilinskas, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, S. Morris Brown
  • Patent number: 7730183
    Abstract: A system and method for generating and/or managing virtual network(s) is provided. The system provides an interface for end-user(s) to create a virtual network (e.g., on-demand). The virtual network comprises a plurality of servers that allow the user to, for example, develop and/or test software, migrate applications, apply tasks and/or troubleshoot scenarios in a simulated, distributed environment. A user can communicate with the system via an interface (e.g., web-based) to create and/or manage the virtual network. Additionally, the system can employ a common infrastructure to facilitate creation and/or management of a variety of virtual deployment configurations. The common infrastructure can be designed, for example, by administrator(s) having knowledge of hardware and/or software available for employment within the virtual network. The system can further provide a load-balancing mechanism to determine and/or distribute workload to computer(s) with available resource(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: S. Morris Brown, Adam E. Zilinskas, Danny Huang, Erwin C. Abinion, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, Randall J. Feigner