公开(公告)号：US07752253B2

公开(公告)日：2010-07-06

申请号：US11114634

申请日：2005-04-25

申请人： Todd R. Manion ,  David G. Thaler ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Sandeep K. Singhal ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Tomer Weisberg

发明人： Todd R. Manion ,  David G. Thaler ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Sandeep K. Singhal ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Tomer Weisberg

IPC分类号： G06F19/00

CPC分类号： G06Q10/10

摘要： A set of collaborative contacts may be selected with an invitation user interface. An invitation to participate in a collaborative activity may be sent to the selected contacts from the invitation user interface or from a collaborative application. The invitation may be received by a collaborative services platform. A user of the collaborative services platform may be presented with the invitation along with an ability to choose one of accept, decline and ignore in response to the invitation. The user may choose to accept, decline or explicitly ignore the invitation, and a response may be sent to the sender of the invitation indicating the user's choice. An application programming interface for a collaborative invitation service of the collaborative services platform may include an invitation element, a send invitation element, a respond to invitation element and a cancel invitation element. The cancel invitation element may be used to cancel issued invitations.

摘要翻译： 可以使用邀请用户界面选择一组协作联系人。 参与协作活动的邀请可以从邀请用户界面或协作应用发送到所选择的联系人。 邀请可以由协作服务平台接收。 可以向协作服务平台的用户呈现邀请以及响应于邀请选择接受，拒绝和忽略之一的能力。 用户可以选择接受，拒绝或明确地忽略邀请，并且可以向邀请的发送者发送响应，指示用户的选择。 用于协作服务平台的协作邀请服务的应用编程界面可以包括邀请元素，发送邀请元素，对邀请元素的响应和取消邀请元素。 取消邀请元素可用于取消发出的邀请。

公开(公告)号：US07617281B2

公开(公告)日：2009-11-10

申请号：US11115012

申请日：2005-04-25

申请人： Todd R. Manion ,  David G. Thaler ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Sandeep K. Singhal ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Radu Simionescu

发明人： Todd R. Manion ,  David G. Thaler ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Sandeep K. Singhal ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Radu Simionescu

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06Q10/107 ,  H04L12/1818 ,  H04L12/1822 ,  H04L51/04 ,  H04L67/24

摘要： Collaboration between collaborative endpoints may be facilitated by a serverless publication service of a collaborative services platform. The serverless publication service may be configured to accept communicative connections from the collaborative endpoints. Users of the collaborative services platform may publish their associated collaborative presences with the serverless publication service. For example, the collaborative presence of a user may include information with respect to valid collaborative endpoints for the user and collaborative capabilities at those endpoints. Subscriptions to published collaborative presences may be placed through the serverless publication service. A collaborative presence subscribe message may specify a subscription to a collaborative presence of a user. Upon receipt of a presence subscribe message, if there is no subscription policy with respect to the sender, the recipient may be queried for a subscription policy with respect to the sender. The subscription may be accepted in accordance with the subscription policy.

摘要翻译： 可以通过协作服务平台的无服务器发布服务来促进协作端点之间的协作。 无服务器发布服务可以被配置为接受来自协作端点的通信连接。 协作服务平台的用户可以使用无服务器发布服务发布其关联的协作存在。 例如，用户的协同存在可以包括关于用户的有效协作端点和那些端点处的协作能力的信息。 可以通过无服务器发布服务对发布的合作存在进行订阅。 协作呈现订阅消息可以指定对用户的协作存在的订阅。 在接收到存在订阅消息时，如果没有关于发送者的订阅策略，则可以针对发送方查询接收方的订阅策略。 订阅可以根据订阅政策接受。

公开(公告)号：US07350074B2

公开(公告)日：2008-03-25

申请号：US11110592

申请日：2005-04-20

申请人： Rohit Gupta ,  Todd R. Manion ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Sandeep K. Singhal

发明人： Rohit Gupta ,  Todd R. Manion ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Sandeep K. Singhal

IPC分类号： H04K1/00 ,  H04L9/00 ,  H04L9/32

CPC分类号： H04L9/321 ,  H04L9/3265 ,  H04L63/0823 ,  H04L63/0869 ,  H04L2209/80

摘要： An authentication mechanism uses a trusted people store that can be populated on an individual basis by users of computing devices, and can comprise certificates of entities that the user wishes to allow to act as certification authorities. Consequently, peer-to-peer connections can be made even if neither device presents a certificate or certificate chain signed by a third-party certificate authority, so long as each device present a certificate or certificate chain signed by a device present in the trusted people store. Once authenticated, a remote user can access trusted resources on a host device by having local processes mimic the user and create an appropriate token by changing the user's password or password type to a hash of the user's certificate and then logging the user on. The token can be referenced in a standard manner to determine whether the remote user is authorized to access the trusted resource.

摘要翻译： 认证机制使用可被计算设备的用户单独填充的受信任的人员存储，并且可以包括用户希望允许作为认证机构的实体的证书。 因此，即使两个设备都没有呈现由第三方认证机构签名的证书或证书链，只要每个设备呈现由可信任人员中存在的设备签名的证书或证书链，就可以进行对等连接 商店。 一旦经过身份验证，远程用户可以通过使本地进程模仿用户并通过将用户的密码或密码类型更改为用户证书的哈希值，然后记录用户来创建适当的令牌来访问主机设备上的受信任资源。 可以以标准方式引用令牌，以确定远程用户是否被授权访问受信任的资源。

公开(公告)号：US08036140B2

公开(公告)日：2011-10-11

申请号：US11112347

申请日：2005-04-22

申请人： Ravi Rao ,  Eliot John Flannery ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Andre R. Classen ,  Todd R. Manion

发明人： Ravi Rao ,  Eliot John Flannery ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Andre R. Classen ,  Todd R. Manion

IPC分类号： H04L12/28 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L12/1818 ,  G06F9/465 ,  H04L29/06027 ,  H04L65/1069 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1068 ,  H04L67/24

摘要： Methods and computer readable mediums are described that facilitate inviting user entities on a network. The method may include initiating a first application for sending an invitation by a first user entity on a first endpoint, selecting a second user entity to receive the invitation, and selecting an activity. The method may also include sending from the first endpoint to the second user entity the invitation to participate in the activity if the first endpoint determines the activity is supported by a computing application on the first endpoint.

摘要翻译： 描述了便于在网络上邀请用户实体的方法和计算机可读介质。 该方法可以包括发起用于在第一端点上发送第一用户实体的邀请的第一应用，选择接收邀请的第二用户实体以及选择活动。 该方法还可以包括：如果第一端点确定活动由第一端点上的计算应用支持，则从第一端点向第二用户实体发送参与活动的邀请。

公开(公告)号：US07814214B2

公开(公告)日：2010-10-12

申请号：US12483507

申请日：2009-06-12

申请人： Andre R. Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III

发明人： Andre R. Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/24

摘要： Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example. The user entity may also be able to modify the contact store to modify which other entities are authorized to monitor presence of the user entity and/or which other entities the presence information of which should be monitored by the system, for example.

摘要翻译： 描述了便于管理联系人信息的系统和方法，至少一些与无服务器，对等系统中的实体有关的联系信息。 联系人存储可以存储关于多个其他实体的哪些其他实体被授权以监视用户实体的存在的信息。 实体的存在通常可以指示实体与其他实体进行通信和/或协作的意愿和/或能力。 联系人存储还可以存储关于多个其他实体中哪个其他实体的存在的信息，其中存在哪个应该由系统监视。 例如，用户实体可能能够向联系人商店添加联系人和/或删除联系人。 用户实体还可能能够修改联系人存储，以修改哪个其他实体被授权来监视用户实体的存在和/或其中的哪些实体，其存在信息应由系统监视。

公开(公告)号：US20090248868A1

公开(公告)日：2009-10-01

申请号：US12483507

申请日：2009-06-12

申请人： Andre R. Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III

发明人： Andre R. Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III

IPC分类号： G06F15/173 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/24

摘要： Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example. The user entity may also be able to modify the contact store to modify which other entities are authorized to monitor presence of the user entity and/or which other entities the presence information of which should be monitored by the system, for example.

摘要翻译： 描述了便于管理联系人信息的系统和方法，至少一些与无服务器，对等系统中的实体有关的联系信息。 联系人存储可以存储关于多个其他实体的哪些其他实体被授权以监视用户实体的存在的信息。 实体的存在通常可以指示实体与其他实体进行通信和/或协作的意愿和/或能力。 联系人存储还可以存储关于多个其他实体中哪个其他实体的存在的信息，其中存在哪个应该由系统监视。 例如，用户实体可能能够向联系人商店添加联系人和/或删除联系人。 用户实体还可能能够修改联系人存储，以修改哪个其他实体被授权来监视用户实体的存在和/或其中的哪些实体，其存在信息应由系统监视。

公开(公告)号：US07571228B2

公开(公告)日：2009-08-04

申请号：US11112135

申请日：2005-04-22

申请人： Andre R. Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III

发明人： Andre R. Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David G. Thaler ,  Kevin R. Tao ,  Ravi T. Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/24

摘要： Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example. The user entity may also be able to modify the contact store to modify which other entities are authorized to monitor presence of the user entity and/or which other entities the presence information of which should be monitored by the system, for example.

摘要翻译： 描述了便于管理联系人信息的系统和方法，至少一些与无服务器，对等系统中的实体有关的联系信息。 联系人存储可以存储关于多个其他实体的哪些其他实体被授权以监视用户实体的存在的信息。 实体的存在通常可以指示实体与其他实体进行通信和/或协作的意愿和/或能力。 联系人存储还可以存储关于多个其他实体中哪个其他实体的存在的信息，其中存在哪个应该由系统监视。 例如，用户实体可能能够向联系人商店添加联系人和/或删除联系人。 用户实体还可能能够修改联系人存储，以修改哪个其他实体被授权来监视用户实体的存在和/或其中的哪些实体，其存在信息应由系统监视。

公开(公告)号：US20060239279A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-26

申请号：US11112135

申请日：2005-04-22

申请人： Andre Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David Thaler ,  Kevin Tao ,  Ravi Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Parks

发明人： Andre Classen ,  Anirudh Anirudh ,  David Thaler ,  Kevin Tao ,  Ravi Rao ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Tomer Weisberg ,  Upshur Parks

IPC分类号： H04L12/28

CPC分类号： H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/24

摘要： Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example. The user entity may also be able to modify the contact store to modify which other entities are authorized to monitor presence of the user entity and/or which other entities the presence information of which should be monitored by the system, for example.

公开(公告)号：US07430747B2

公开(公告)日：2008-09-30

申请号：US10309865

申请日：2002-12-04

申请人： Todd R. Manion ,  Jeremy L. Dewey ,  Robert D. Donner ,  Scott A. Senkeresty ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III ,  Noel W. Anderson

发明人： Todd R. Manion ,  Jeremy L. Dewey ,  Robert D. Donner ,  Scott A. Senkeresty ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Upshur Warren Parks, III ,  Noel W. Anderson

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1042 ,  H04L67/1089

摘要： Application programming interfaces and methods that provide graph management in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are provided. More specifically, new and improved P2P application programming interfaces (APIs) and methods for the creation and access of graphs, the retrieval of node and graph information, the addition, modification, deletion and management of records (data), the importation and exportation of graph data, the direct communication between graph nodes, the addition of a security provider to a graph, the setting and retrieval of presence information, the registering for event notifications, and other utility and support functions are presented. Each of these interfaces utilize various parameters that are passed in from an application program that uses these interfaces to manage and utilize graphs. The interfaces return a value that indicates the success or failure of the function. For failures, the interfaces provide an indication as to the problem resulting in the failure.

摘要翻译： 提供了在点对点（P2P）网络中提供图形管理的应用程序编程接口和方法。 更具体地说，新的和改进的P2P应用编程接口（API）和图形创建和访问方法，节点和图形信息的检索，记录（数据）的添加，修改，删除和管理，输入和输出 呈现图形数据，图形节点之间的直接通信，图形中的安全提供者的添加，存在信息的设置和检索，事件通知的注册以及其他实用和支持功能。 这些接口中的每一个都使用从使用这些接口的应用程序传入的各种参数来管理和利用图形。 接口返回一个值，表示该函数的成功或失败。 对于故障，接口提供了导致故障的问题的指示。

公开(公告)号：US20080013537A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-17

申请号：US11486544

申请日：2006-07-14

申请人： Jeremy L. Dewey ,  Noah Horton ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Todd R. Manion

发明人： Jeremy L. Dewey ,  Noah Horton ,  Rohit Gupta ,  Todd R. Manion

IPC分类号： H04L12/56

CPC分类号： H04L63/0823 ,  H04L63/083

摘要： A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium are provided for authorizing a computing node to participate in a group of computing nodes utilizing a shared group password. According to one method described herein, an invitation to join a group is transmitted to a tentative group member node. The invitation is used to establish a connection with a group member node of the group. The tentative group member node generates a hash of a group password and transmits the hash to the group member node. When the group member node receives the hash, the group member node compares the received value to a previously stored hash of the group password. If the previously stored value is identical to the value received from the tentative group member node, then the tentative group member node is authorized as a new member of the group. Otherwise the tentative group member node is not permitted to become a member of the group.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统，装置，方法和计算机可读介质，用于使用共享组密码来授权计算节点参与一组计算节点。 根据本文描述的一种方法，将加入组的邀请传送到临时组成员节点。 该邀请用于与该组的组成员节点建立连接。 临时组成员节点生成组密码的散列，并将散列发送到组成员节点。 当组成员节点接收到散列时，组成员节点将接收到的值与先前存储的组密码的散列进行比较。 如果先前存储的值与从暂定组成员节点接收到的值相同，那么临时组成员节点被授权为该组的新成员。 否则暂时的组成员节点不允许成为组的成员。