Rahul Gupta, 48Redmond, WA

7299410, Nov 20, 2007

Jul 1, 2003

10/612759

David Kays - Bellevue WA, US
Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
William J. Whalen - Seattle WA, US
Nick Carlson - Bothell WA, US
Rhynier Myburgh - Bothell WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Kenik Hassel - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 5/00

715513, 715500, 715530

A system and method comprising a reporting mechanism for outputting an HMTL and XML document from a collection of hierarchically maintained settings such as group policy object settings or resultant set of policy data. The reporting mechanism provides a substantially complete view of which settings are configured (enabled) in a given group policy object, or a view for a resultant set of policy (that is applied to a given SOM), along with the values of the settings. The markup language format enables viewing a flat representation of the settings, and printing, saving and/or transporting of the settings. XML schemas describe a valid representation of group policy settings, and a valid representation of resultant set of policy.

7590981, Sep 15, 2009

Mar 29, 2005

11/096963

Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
Derek P. Menzies - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/445

717168, 717174

The description of an update package for updating a software application in an offline synchronization operation is presented. The update package includes update information for a plurality of updates. The update information includes a reference to the update payload and the relationships of the present update to other updates in the update package. A system for updating a software application on a client computer is also presented. An update agent includes a communication module and a media module. The communication module is configured to communicate with both an update source over a communication network, or the media module. The media module obtains update information from computer-readable media. The communication module communicates with the update source or the media module in the same manner.

8112379, Feb 7, 2012

Mar 19, 2009

12/407062

Eric Voskuil - Kirkland WA, US
Derek Menzies - Redmond WA, US
Leonard Charest - Redmond WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bothell WA, US
Phillip Mienk - Redmond WA, US
Jeremiah S. Nay - Sammamish WA, US
Dilip Radhakrishnan - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1/00

706 47, 434118, 717104

A policy processor is described that may be used to implement a system for managing the configuration of assets in a distributed computing network, such as an enterprise network. The policy processor resides on a managed node in the distributed computing network and operates to receive, evaluate and enact policies issued by one or more policy authorities in the distributed computing network. The policy processor utilizes a conflict resolution model to determine which policy rules included within the policies should be put into effect and which should not.

8117230, Feb 14, 2012

May 12, 2009

12/464108

Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
William J. Whalen - Seattle WA, US
Carey Tanner - Gold Bar WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707786, 707787

A system and method for managing group policy objects in a network, including interfaces that allow access by programs or a user interface component to functions of a group policy management console that performs management tasks on group policy objects and other related objects. The interfaces abstract the underlying data storage and retrieval, thereby facilitating searching for objects, and providing the ability to delegate, view, change and permissions on those objects, and check and save those permissions. Modeling and other test simulations are facilitated by other interfaces. Other interfaces provide dynamic and interactive features, such as to convey progress and rich status messages, and allow canceling of an ongoing operation. Still other interfaces provide methods for operating on group policy related data, including group policy object backup, restore, import, copy and create methods, and methods for linking group policy objects to scope of management objects.

8244841, Aug 14, 2012

Apr 9, 2003

10/410865

Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
William J. Whalen - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00
G06F 15/173

709223, 707666, 707694

A system and method for performing various operations on group policy objects, by manipulating group policy objects as a single entity to perform backup, restore, import and copy operations. The backup operation transfers the various subparts of a selected group policy object to a file system. A restore operation restores a backed-up group policy object to its domain, in the same state as when the backup was performed. An import operation transfers the settings within a backed-up source group policy object to a destination group policy object, erasing its previous settings. A copy operation transfers the settings from a source group policy object to a new group policy object. Copy and import operations can be cross-domain, and a migration table can be used to convert security group and UNC pathnames as appropriate for the destination domain. Backup management, rollback of incomplete operations, and support for application deployment are also provided.

2004021, Oct 28, 2004

Apr 9, 2003

10/411876

Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Derek C. Cheng - Issaquah WA, US
William Whalen - Seattle WA, US
Carey Tanner - Gold Bar WA, US
Mike Treit - Bellevue WA, US

G06F007/00

707/102000

A system and method for managing group policy objects in a network, including interfaces that allow access by programs or a user interface component to functions of a group policy management console that performs management tasks on group policy objects and other related objects. The interfaces abstract the underlying data storage and retrieval, thereby facilitating searching for objects, and providing the ability to delegate, view, change and permissions on those objects, and check and save those permissions. Modeling and other test simulations are facilitated by other interfaces. Other interfaces provide dynamic and interactive features, such as to convey progress and rich status messages, and allow canceling of an ongoing operation. Still other interfaces provide methods for operating on group policy related data, including group policy object backup, restore, import, copy and create methods, and methods for linking group policy objects to scope of management objects.

2008018, Jul 31, 2008

Jan 26, 2007

11/627865

Steven Patterson Burns - Redmond WA, US
Derek Menzies - Sammamish WA, US
Mazhar Naveed Mohammed - Sammamish WA, US
John Hayden Wilson - Woodinville WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
Rajive Kumar - Sammamish WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 9/44

717121

Managing software states using policy rules in a policy document in a distributed network. A policy document is generated and the policy document includes a set of policy rules defining one or more desired configurations of one or more pieces of software on the target devices. Target information is associated with the policy document, and the target information corresponds to a selected set of the target devices and includes information relating to characteristics of the software of the selected set of target devices. The set of policy rules included in the policy document is compared with other policy rules for the software. The policy document is modified as a function of the comparison and conflict resolution preferences. The modified policy document is provided for deployment to the selected set of the target devices.

2008018, Jul 31, 2008

Jan 26, 2007

11/627871

Steven Patterson Burns - Redmond WA, US
Derek Menzies - Sammamish WA, US
Mazhar Naveed Mohammed - Sammamish WA, US
John Hayden Wilson - Woodinville WA, US
Rahul Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Ullattil Shaji - Sammamish WA, US
Rajive Kumar - Sammamish WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 13/10

719327

Applying policy rules to software installed on a device. A group of devices to receive policy rules for the software is identified. The devices belonging to the specified group is identified. A set of policy rules assigned to the devices in the specified group are identified. The policy rules assigned to the devices are aggregated into one or more policy documents. The one or more policy documents are received. The received policy documents are stored in a data store associated with the device. The set of policy rules specified by the received policy documents are applied to the software. A feedback is provided to the policy authority in response to the applying, and the feedback is indicative of whether the set of policy rules is applied to the software.