Patents by Inventor Willard Bruce Jones

Willard Bruce Jones 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: 11625469
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for prevention of organizational data leakage across platforms based on device status. A device management service may include status information for a client device and/or a connection in a token provided to the client device and update the status in response to changes. An applicable data protection policy may be determined based on the detected status and optionally based on data being accessed. An instruction may be transmitted to a client application executed on the client device based on the applicable data protection policy thereby enforcing the data protection policy at the server. The instruction may cause a script executed at the client application to disable one or more user interface controls associated with functionality such as downloading, synchronizing, printing, etc. of the organizational data to prevent leakage of organizational data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sameer Yadav, Willard Bruce Jones, Matthew R. Wallace, Kavita K. Kamani, Titus C. Miron, Alexandru Munteanu, Sarat Subramaniam
  • Patent number: 10216919
    Abstract: Data loss prevention (DLP) systems may be implemented in conjunction with collaborative services that may be integrated with or work in coordination with productivity services. Administrators may be enabled to configure DLP policies in the collaborative service to mitigate their organization's information disclosure risks, along with the detection and remediation of sensitive information. Access blocking may be one feature of the DLP system, where provision of access blocking may include determining if a detected action associated with content processed by the collaborative service matches access blocking criteria defined by DLP policy rules. In response to the determination that the action matches at least one access blocking criterion defined by the DLP policy rules, a block access tag associated with the content may be activated, previously defined permissions associated with the content may be ignored or altered, and access to the content may be restricted to a number of predefined users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Li, Willard Bruce Jones, Ryan Wilhelm, Richard Wesley Holley
  • Publication number: 20180336334
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for prevention of organizational data leakage across platforms based on device status. A device management service may include status information for a client device and/or a connection in a token provided to the client device and update the status in response to changes. An applicable data protection policy may be determined based on the detected status and optionally based on data being accessed. An instruction may be transmitted to a client application executed on the client device based on the applicable data protection policy thereby enforcing the data protection policy at the server. The instruction may cause a script executed at the client application to disable one or more user interface controls associated with functionality such as downloading, synchronizing, printing, etc. of the organizational data to prevent leakage of organizational data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sameer YADAV, Willard Bruce JONES, Matthew R. WALLACE, Kavita K. KAMANI, Titus C. MIRON, Alexandru MUNTEANU, Sarat SUBRAMANIAM
  • Patent number: 9697349
    Abstract: Data loss prevention (DLP) systems may be implemented with collaborative services that may be integrated with or work in coordination with productivity services. Administrators may be enabled to configure DLP policies in the collaborative service to mitigate their organization's information disclosure risks, along with the detection and remediation of sensitive information. Access blocking may be a feature of the DLP system, where provision of access blocking may include determining if a detected action associated with content processed by the collaborative service matches access blocking criteria defined by DIP policy rules. In response to the determination that the action matches at least one access blocking criterion defined by the DLP policy rules, a block access tag associated with the content may be activated, previously defined permissions associated with the content may be ignored or altered, and access to the content may be restricted to a number of predefined users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Li, Willard Bruce Jones, Ryan Wilhelm, Richard Wesley Holley
  • Publication number: 20170126697
    Abstract: Data loss prevention (DLP) systems may be implemented in conjunction with collaborative services that may be integrated with or work in coordination with productivity services. Administrators may be enabled to configure DLP policies in the collaborative service to mitigate their organization's information disclosure risks, along with the detection and remediation of sensitive information. Access blocking may be one feature of the DLP system, where provision of access blocking may include determining if a detected action associated with content processed by the collaborative service matches access blocking criteria defined by DLP policy rules. In response to the determination that the action matches at least one access blocking criterion defined by the DLP policy rules, a block access tag associated with the content may be activated, previously defined permissions associated with the content may be ignored or altered, and access to the content may be restricted to a number of predefined users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Li, Willard Bruce Jones, Ryan Wilhelm, Richard Wesley Holley
  • Publication number: 20160117495
    Abstract: Data loss prevention (DLP) systems may be implemented in conjunction with collaborative services that may be integrated with or work in coordination with productivity services. Administrators may be enabled to configure DLP policies in the collaborative service to mitigate their organization's information disclosure risks, along with the detection and remediation of sensitive information. Access blocking may be one feature of the DLP system, where provision of access blocking may include determining if a detected action associated with content processed by the collaborative service matches access blocking criteria defined by DLP policy rules. In response to the determination that the action matches at least one access blocking criterion defined by the DLP policy rules, a block access tag associated with the content may be activated, previously defined permissions associated with the content may be ignored or altered, and access to the content may be restricted to a number of predefined users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yu Li, Willard Bruce Jones, Ryan Wilhelm, Richard Wesley Holley
  • Patent number: 8438173
    Abstract: Tools and techniques for indexing and querying data stores using concatenated terms are provided. These tools may receive input queries that include at least two query terms. The query terms are correlated respectively with fields contained within records within a data store, with these fields being populated with respective field values. The query terms are arranged according to an indexing priority according to which the fields are ranked within an indexing table, which is associated with the data store. The tools then concatenate the query terms as arranged according to the indexing priority. In turn, the tools search the index table for any entries that are responsive to the concatenated query terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Willard Bruce Jones, Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan
  • Publication number: 20110010360
    Abstract: Queries that are determined to be too expensive to perform are prevented from being executed. Queries are determined to be too expensive based on the resources that are required to perform the query. For example, the query may be determined to be too expensive to perform based a length of a list the query requires to access, a number of lookups that may be performed relating to the query, a number of unique permissions accessed by the query, and the like. Queries that are deemed to expensive during normal operation may be performed during other times such that the impact of performing the query on other users is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: DINA A.M. AYOUB, MINGQUAN XUE, WILLARD BRUCE JONES, NARESH KANNAN, ANDREW SEAN WATSON, SIMON SKARIA
  • Publication number: 20100185629
    Abstract: Tools and techniques for indexing and querying data stores using concatenated terms are provided. These tools may receive input queries that include at least two query terms. The query terms are correlated respectively with fields contained within records within a data store, with these fields being populated with respective field values. The query terms are arranged according to an indexing priority according to which the fields are ranked within an indexing table, which is associated with the data store. The tools then concatenate the query terms as arranged according to the indexing priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Willard Bruce Jones, Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan
  • Patent number: 6579324
    Abstract: A method for using an indicator, known as “See Through View,” that allows a user to select a region on the display device and still see the visual attributes of the contents as they will appear when the region is deselected. When the user selects a region on the display device, the invention “shades” the background of the selected region. The contents within the selected region are left unchanged. Shading is accomplished by combining each original background base color with a selection shading color to produce a corresponding blended color, or colors. If the corresponding blended color is similar to the background base color, the blended color is either lightened or darkened, as needed to produce an adjusted blended color. Each blended color, or the adjusted blended color (as required) replaces the corresponding base background color within the selected region. The effect is that the selected region and background items appear “shaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kent R. Lowry, Howard Wesley Cherry, Willard Bruce Jones, Tjeerd Hoek, Justin Maguire, III, John A. Tholen, Richard M. Banks, Terrence T. Huang