Ming M Ma, 40Kent, WA

7376976, May 20, 2008

Mar 2, 2006

11/276496

Scott J. Fierstein - Seattle WA, US
Brian P. Evans - Redmond WA, US
Geoffrey T. Dunbar - Kirkland WA, US
James M. Alkove - Woodiville WA, US
Daniel Rosenstein - Redmond WA, US
Matthew Howard - Redmond WA, US
Ming Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/04
G06F 17/30
H04N 7/167
H04K 1/00
G06F 21/00
G06F 1/00
G11B 20/00

726 27, 726 2, 726 26, 380242, 380255

Technology for protecting a digital content including a first content protection system capable of decrypting the digital content, the digital content including an inclusion list; a linkable library providing access for an application to the functionality of the first content protection system, the application including a second content protection system; and a means for evaluating the second content protection system to determine if the second content protection system is on the inclusion list.

7756987, Jul 13, 2010

Apr 4, 2007

11/696580

Yi-Min Wang - Bellevue WA, US
Douglas Beck - Bothell WA, US
Chad Verbowski - Redmond WA, US
Bradford Daniels - Redmond WA, US
Ming Ma - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709229, 709239

An exemplary method includes providing a typographically erroneous domain name, tracing the domain name where tracing includes entering the domain name as part of a URL and recording one or more subsequent URLs, identifying a domain parking service for the domain name based at least in part on information in one of the recorded URLs, determining client identification information in at least one of the recorded URLs where the client identification information identifies a customer of the domain parking service and blocking one or more domain names based at least in part on the client identification information. Other exemplary technologies are also disclosed.

7873635, Jan 18, 2011

May 31, 2007

11/756603

Yi-Min Wang - Bellevue WA, US
Ming Ma - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 12/00

707735, 707781

Defeating click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. Investigating cloaking includes providing script associated with a suspected spam URL, modifying the script to de-obfuscate the script and executing the modified script to reveal cloaking logic associated with the script.

2006024, Oct 26, 2006

Apr 27, 2005

11/116598

Sumedh Barde - Redmond WA, US
Jonathan Schwartz - Kirkland WA, US
Reid Kuhn - Seattle WA, US
Alexandre Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Kirt Debique - Seattle WA, US
Chadd Knowlton - Bellevue WA, US
James Alkove - Woodinville WA, US
Geoffrey Dunbar - Kirkland WA, US
Michael Grier - Woodinville WA, US
Ming Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Chaitanya Upadhyay - Kirkland WA, US
Adil Sherwani - Seattle WA, US
Arun Kishan - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 9/00

713164000

A method of establishing a protected environment within a computing device including validating a kernel component loaded into a kernel of the computing device, establishing a security state for the kernel based on the validation, creating a secure process and loading a software component into the secure process, periodically checking the security state of the kernel, and notifying the secure process when the security state of the kernel has changed.

2008030, Dec 4, 2008

May 31, 2007

11/756602

Yi-Min Wang - Bellevue WA, US
Ming Ma - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/06
G06F 17/30

707 5, 707E17008, 707E17107

An exemplary method for protecting web browsers from spam includes providing a multi-layer model that includes a doorway layer, a redirection domain layer, an aggregator layer, a syndicator layer and an advertiser layer; identifying domains as being associated with at least one of the layers; and, based at least in part on the identifying, taking one or more corrective actions to protect web browsers from search spam. An exemplary method for identifying a bottleneck layer in a multi-layer spam model includes providing a multi-layer spam model, collecting spam advertisements, associating a block of IP addresses with the collected spam advertisements and identifying a bottleneck layer based on the block of IP addresses. Other methods, systems, etc., are also disclosed.

2008030, Dec 4, 2008

May 31, 2007

11/756600

Yi-Min Wang - Bellevue WA, US
Ming Ma - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173
G06F 7/08

707 7, 709224, 707E17009

An exemplary system for monitoring search spam and protecting against search spam includes a self-monitoring subsystem to uncover spam patterns and a self-protection subsystem to protect against spam by providing spam-related information to strengthen a relevance ranking algorithm. An exemplary architecture for monitoring search spam includes a first component to receive one or more spammer targeted keywords and to search, scan and analyze URLs based at least in part on the one or more spammer targeted keywords, a second component to receive one or more URLs from the first component and to verify one or more of these URLs as a spam URL and a third component to collect spammer targeted keywords associated with one or more spam URLs and to provide one or more of the spammer targeted keywords to the first component. Other methods, systems, etc., are also disclosed.

2009015, Jun 18, 2009

Feb 23, 2009

12/390505

Sumedh N. Barde - Redmond WA, US
Jonathan D. Schwartz - Redmond WA, US
Reid Joseph Kuhn - Redmond WA, US
Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch - Redmond WA, US
Kirt A. Debique - Redmond WA, US
James M. Alkove - Redmond WA, US
Geoffery T. Dunbar - Redmond WA, US
Michael J. Grier - Redmond WA, US
Ming Ma - Redmond WA, US
Chaitanya D. Upadhyay - , US
Adil Ahmed Sherwani - Redmond WA, US
Arun Upadhyaya Kishan - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 9/00

713164

A method of establishing a protected environment within a computing device including validating a kernel component loaded into a kernel of the computing device, establishing a security state for the kernel based on the validation, creating a secure process and loading a software component into the secure process, periodically checking the security state of the kernel, and notifying the secure process when the security state of the kernel has changed.

2011008, Apr 14, 2011

Dec 13, 2010

12/966120

Yi-Min Wang - Bellevue WA, US
Ming Ma - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707709, 707722, 707706, 707E17108

Defeating click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. Investigating cloaking includes providing script associated with a suspected spam URL, modifying the script to de-obfuscate the script and executing the modified script to reveal cloaking logic associated with the script.