Keumars A Ahdieh Deceased4300 1000, Alexandria, IN 46001

2007005, Mar 15, 2007

Jan 5, 2006

11/325722

Aaron Culbreth - Bellevue WA, US
Brian Trenbeath - Redmond WA, US
Keumars Ahdieh - Lake Stevens WA, US
Peter Wiest - Issaquah WA, US
Roger Wynn - Redmond WA, US
Stan Pennington - Newcastle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04J 3/22

370465000, 370474000

Mechanisms are disclosed for detecting protocols independently of the ports used by streams associated with the protocols or applications that may send out such streams. The detecting may entail using a content filter that is hosted on a networking stack, where the content filter may be composed of a stream buffer and handlers for detecting the protocols. The handlers may be further used to modify streams incoming to a port or streams outgoing from an application. The handlers can modify the streams in a variety of ways, including reading, inserting, replacing, deleting, and completing data in the streams according to some policy criteria, such as those set by parental controls. Individual handlers may be selected from a plurality or set of handlers so that they can be matched up to the appropriate streams.

2007006, Mar 15, 2007

Jan 4, 2006

11/326284

Aaron Culbreth - Bellevue WA, US
Akiko Maruyama - Redmond WA, US
Brian Trenbeath - Redmond WA, US
Jordan Correa - Lynnwood WA, US
Keumars Ahdieh - Lake Stevens WA, US
Peter Wiest - Issaquah WA, US
Roger Wynn - Redmond WA, US
Stan Pennington - Newcastle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709225000

Various internet content filtering mechanisms are disclosed. One such mechanism is a filtering service that uses a filter stack and at least two caches. The filter stack can access these caches during its execution of objects. One of the caches could be a cross-user cache that contains information relevant for internet content to a particular user, but this information could be also used by other users. The other cache could be a cross-application cache that contains information relevant for particular applications, but this information could also be used by other applications. The filtering service can be nicely integrated in an operating system to provide a centralized framework for the filtering of internet content.

2007012, May 31, 2007

Nov 3, 2005

11/266143

Aaron Culbreth - Bellevue WA, US
Keumars Ahdieh - Lake Stevens WA, US
Peter Wiest - Issaquah WA, US
Roderick Toll - Sammamish WA, US
Roger Wynn - Redmond WA, US
Stan Pennington - Newcastle WA, US
Timothy Gill - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/46
G06F 13/00
G06F 3/00

719320000

A compliance interface is disclosed that takes in queries from applications which may want to know if they are compliant with associated polices stored on a computing system. The interface can then interpret these queries and provide notifications and instructions to the applications. Notifications may give notice of how a policy may impact an application, and instructions may tell an application how to behave in order to stay compliant with the policies. In one aspect, the interface exposes policies set forth by parents. Via a management control panel, parents can set or alter various policies, stored in a settings store, to protect children from contact with undesirable content. The interface interprets these policies to ensure that applications, such as those provided by third party vendors, are compliant with the wishes set forth in the parents' policies.