Patents by Inventor Simon Leet

Simon Leet 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: 10482034
    Abstract: Instantiating an attestation facilitation component that allows a remote application to attest to a secure state of a secure memory application executing upon a secure platform of a computer system regardless of a type of either the secure platform or a health attestation service. Instantiation comprises identifying a property that includes at least one of the secure platform type and the health attestation service type. The instantiation is customized with the identified property. The attestation facilitation component verifies that a report generated by the secure platform represents that the secure memory application is operating in a secure state, and accesses a token generated by the health attestation service that represents that the secure platform is operating in a secure state. The attestation facilitation component generates a quote that allows the remote application to verify that the secure platform and the secure memory application are both operating in secure states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lei Kou, Pushkar Vijay Chitnis, Simon Leet
  • Publication number: 20180341529
    Abstract: A “Hypervisor Secure Container” (HSC) is a block of memory space that resides inside of a regular process, but is secured from the operating system of the computer it runs on. The HSC is a software container that runs on a hypervisor directly. Data and code within one HSC can only be accessed by the hypervisor itself and the code that belongs to the same HSC. The HSC can run in user mode or kernel mode. Advantageously, even if the operating system or user of the computer the HSC runs on is malicious, the data inside the HSC is still secure. The HSC allows software based isolation of code/data and can be used in various security contexts including securely storing certificates and passwords, performing Digital Rights Management (DRM) for media and games, and confidential computing in a computing cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lei Kou, Pushkar V. Chitnis, Simon Leet
  • Publication number: 20180150411
    Abstract: Instantiating an attestation facilitation component that allows a remote application to attest to a secure state of a secure memory application executing upon a secure platform of a computer system regardless of a type of either the secure platform or a health attestation service. Instantiation comprises identifying a property that includes at least one of the secure platform type and the health attestation service type. The instantiation is customized with the identified property. The attestation facilitation component verifies that a report generated by the secure platform represents that the secure memory application is operating in a secure state, and accesses a token generated by the health attestation service that represents that the secure platform is operating in a secure state. The attestation facilitation component generates a quote that allows the remote application to verify that the secure platform and the secure memory application are both operating in secure states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Lei Kou, Pushkar Vijay Chitnis, Simon Leet
  • Patent number: 9766870
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a bundle package, digitally signing the bundle package, selectively disturbing the bundle package, and/or indexing one or more resource packages retrieved from the bundle package. That is, a bundle package (e.g., an application or game bundle package) comprises one or more app packages comprising application code configured to execute on various computing environments (e.g., operating systems, processors, etc.). The bundle package may comprise one or more resource packages comprising supplemental data used to provide optional user experience functionality for the application (e.g., French language support, high resolution textures, a gaming pad support, etc.). In this way, a client device may selectively download portions of the bundle package that may be relevant, which may mitigate download bandwidth, storage space, or resources otherwise used to obtain unnecessary portions of the bundle package (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Salameh, Erik Fortune, Jr., Phillip Smith, John Michael Sheehan, Simon Leet, Letao Wang, Sarjana Sheth
  • Publication number: 20140359604
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a bundle package, digitally signing the bundle package, selectively disturbing the bundle package, and/or indexing one or more resource packages retrieved from the bundle package. That is, a bundle package (e.g., an application or game bundle package) comprises one or more app packages comprising application code configured to execute on various computing environments (e.g., operating systems, processors, etc.). The bundle package may comprise one or more resource packages comprising supplemental data used to provide optional user experience functionality for the application (e.g., French language support, high resolution textures, a gaming pad support, etc.). In this way, a client device may selectively download portions of the bundle package that may be relevant, which may mitigate download bandwidth, storage space, or resources otherwise used to obtain unnecessary portions of the bundle package (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Jason Salameh, Erik Fortune, Phillip Smith, John Michael Sheehan, Simon Leet, Letao Wang, Sarjana Sheth
  • Publication number: 20140359605
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a bundle package, digitally signing the bundle package, selectively disturbing the bundle package, and/or indexing one or more resource packages retrieved from the bundle package. That is, a bundle package (e.g., an application or game bundle package) comprises one or more app packages comprising application code configured to execute on various computing environments (e.g., operating systems, processors, etc.). The bundle package may comprise one or more resource packages comprising supplemental data used to provide optional user experience functionality for the application (e.g., French language support, high resolution textures, a gaming pad support, etc.). In this way, a client device may selectively download portions of the bundle package that may be relevant, which may mitigate download bandwidth, storage space, or resources otherwise used to obtain unnecessary portions of the bundle package (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Leet, Sarjana Sheth, Patrick T. O'Brien, JR., Jack Roger Davis
  • Publication number: 20140351330
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for dynamically maintaining a service profile. That is, a user may be associated with a variety of services, such as an email service, a social network service, a photo sharing service, etc. An operating system may dynamically provide support for services by maintaining service profiles. For example, a service provider application may specify a service definition defining a service not yet supported (e.g., a social network app may describe functionality and/or information about a new social network service). A service profile may be generated for the service based upon the service definition. The service profile may be exposed to system components and/or applications that may utilize the service profile to access information and/or functionality provided by service (e.g., a camera system component may allow a user to upload a photo to the new social network service utilizing the service profile).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jacob Andrew Sabulsky, Zainab Hakim, Harris Syed, Simon Leet, Sarjana Sheth, Sermet Iskin
  • Patent number: 7603390
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for recovering data. The disclosed systems and methods may include locating a central directory in a file archive. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that a local header located in the file archive is authentic if at least one of a plurality of records in the local header match at least one of a corresponding record in the central directory. The local header may be located in the file archive using an offset specified in the central directory. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that the local header is valid and recovering item data associated with the local header if the local header is authentic and valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Jump, Li Hua, Simon Leet, Josh Pollock, Scott Walker
  • Publication number: 20090177646
    Abstract: A monitoring and management system may use a plugin mechanism to add or update an interface to a managed service or device. The plugin may have capability to interface with the managed service or device, as well as an interface to a status database that may be populated by the managed service or device as well as other services or devices. The plugin may have rules that may be used to determine a status for the monitored service or device based on the statuses of several services or devices, and may also have rules that define a multi level query into the database to determine those services and devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bernard Pham, Israel Hilerio, Shadi Ashkar, Simon Leet
  • Publication number: 20070016547
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for recovering data. The disclosed systems and methods may include locating a central directory in a file archive. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that a local header located in the file archive is authentic if at least one of a plurality of records in the local header match at least one of a corresponding record in the central directory. The local header may be located in the file archive using an offset specified in the central directory. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that the local header is valid and recovering item data associated with the local header if the local header is authentic and valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Jump, Li Hua, Simon Leet, Josh Pollock, Scott Walker