Ramkumar Ramasubramanian

7356836, Apr 8, 2008

Jun 28, 2002

10/186014

Craig Adam Beilinson - Bellevue WA, US
Raymond J. Chen - Redmond WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Dennis L. Davis - Bothell WA, US
Christopher A. Evans - Sammamish WA, US
Eric R. Flo - Sammamish WA, US
Sterling M. Reasor - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 21/00
G06F 15/16

726 4, 726 1, 726 17

This invention is directed to provide a method for enabling an administrator to monitor and selectively limit the computer functions available to a user. The method is carried out on a personal computer by an administrator, and administrator decisions can be enforced on other personal computers in a local network. The invention enables an administrator to restrict a user's logon hours, logon duration, access to computer functions, and access to applications based on content rating. In addition, the administrator may temporarily restrict or extend normally allowed access privileges. The invention also allows for the monitoring, auditing, and reporting of a user's computer function usage to an administrator.

7797735, Sep 14, 2010

Feb 26, 2008

12/037729

Craig Adam Beilinson - Bellevue WA, US
Raymond J. Chen - Redmond WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Dennis L. Davis - Bothell WA, US
Christopher A. Evans - Sammamish WA, US
Eric R. Flo - Sammamish WA, US
Sterling M. Reasor - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 21/00
G06F 15/16

726 4, 726 1, 726 17

This invention is directed to provide a method for enabling an administrator to monitor and selectively limit the computer functions available to a user. The method is carried out on a personal computer by an administrator, and administrator decisions can be enforced on other personal computers in a local network. The invention enables an administrator to restrict a user's logon hours, logon duration, access to computer functions, and access to applications based on content rating. In addition, the administrator may temporarily restrict or extend normally allowed access privileges. The invention also allows for the monitoring, auditing, and reporting of a user's computer function usage to an administrator.

7818789, Oct 19, 2010

Jan 24, 2008

12/019438

Craig Adam Beilinson - Bellevue WA, US
Raymond J. Chen - Redmond WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Dennis L. Davis - Bothell WA, US
Christopher A. Evans - Sammamish WA, US
Eric R. Flo - Sammamish WA, US
Sterling M. Reasor - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 21/00
G06F 15/16

726 4, 726 1, 726 17

This invention is directed to provide a method for enabling an administrator to monitor and selectively limit the computer functions available to a user. The method is carried out on a personal computer by an administrator, and administrator decisions can be enforced on other personal computers in a local network. The invention enables an administrator to restrict a user's logon hours, logon duration, access to computer functions, and access to applications based on content rating. In addition, the administrator may temporarily restrict or extend normally allowed access privileges. The invention also allows for the monitoring, auditing, and reporting of a user's computer function usage to an administrator.

7987202, Jul 26, 2011

Jun 25, 2008

12/146207

Lindsey R. Noll - Seattle WA, US
Steve Seixeiro - Snohomish WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Relja B. Ivanovic - Seattle WA, US
Jerry K. Koh - Bothell WA, US
Gurjot S. Brar - Renton WA, US
Anshul Rawat - Kirkland WA, US
Lyon Wong - Issaquah WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707792, 707796, 707805, 707812

Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for acting on properties of multiple resources, which span disparate locations within a network, upon detecting an intuitive user-initiated operation are provided. Initially, a library is provided that includes a framework for contemporaneously accessing a collection of items within a scope thereof. Upon launching the library, representations of the scoped items are surfaced at a UI display. When the user-initiated operation is applied at one of the surfaced representations, properties of each of the scoped items are automatically manipulated. A library-configuration state, which reflects how the items are affected upon manipulating the properties thereof, may be updated upon implementing the manipulation. Accordingly, if the scope of the library is subsequently extended to encompass another item outside the original collection of items, the properties of this new item are automatically manipulated to align with the library-configuration state.

8510808, Aug 13, 2013

Jan 8, 2008

11/971028

Brian L. McNeil - Kirkland WA, US
Michael G. Sheldon - Seattle WA, US
Steve Seixeiro - Snohomish WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Jerry K. Koh - Redmond WA, US
Anshul Rawat - Kirkland WA, US
Andrew V. Davidson - Kirkland WA, US
Daniel Oliver - Seattle WA, US
Michael D. McCormack - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

726 5, 709201, 709202, 709203, 709206, 709223, 709224, 709225, 709226, 726 2, 726 3, 726 4, 726 11, 726 12, 718100

Method and computer storage media for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common non-enterprise network. A common set of credentials is stored on at least two or more of a plurality of computing devices that reside behind a routing device and are associated through a common non-enterprise network. Upon storing the common set of credentials, each of the two or more of a plurality of computing devices create a local account that contains, at least, the common set of credentials. The common set of credentials allow for the sharing, among the two or more of the plurality of computing devices, of resource that reside on or are associated with the computing devices.

20010035881, Nov 1, 2001

Apr 4, 2001

09/825717

Richard Stoakley - Seattle WA, US
James Kurtz - Bellevue WA, US
Todd Green - Seattle WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Redmond WA, US
Chris Guzak - Kirkland WA, US
James Springfield - Woodinville WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F003/14

345/772000, 345/835000

A method and system are provided for use in a computer system for organizing and displaying notification items associated with the system, applications or other components, within a notification area. The system monitors items that are placed in the notification comparing the period of placement with a predetermined time threshold value. If the item has remained inactive for longer than the predetermined threshold period, the item is hidden from the notification area. Additionally, the system monitors the hidden items for changes in icon appearance and will unhide the item upon a change in appearance or specific selection by a user. New items and unhidden items are arranged in the order of the most recent addition to the notification area. The system also allows a user to customize the behavior associated with individual notification items.

20060242206, Oct 26, 2006

Apr 22, 2005

11/111895

John Brezak - Woodinville WA, US
Mohammed Samji - Bellevue WA, US
Nathan Johnson - Shoreline WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Robert Jervis - Bellevue WA, US
Walter Vonkoch - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707201000

A system and related techniques provide a seamless, peer-to-peer file synchronization capability for sharing files, folders, directories or other stored content between machines. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, a sync engine or other file management logic may be integrated into the operating system or other resources of a user's desktop, laptop, network-enabled cellular device or other computer, client, machine or other hardware. The sync engine may accept user designations of files, folders, directories or other contents which they wish to share, sync or roam between two or more selected machines, on an automatically consistent basis. The sync engine or other control logic may maintain a file system log to record the state of files which have been designated for sharing, to indicate for example whether a transmission of the file has been made, to which target machine or machines it has been transmitted, and other variables regarding the state of file or other content. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, the sync engine may apply version management logic when files located on a target or destination machine, may, for example, reflect newer or more complete content than the file which is designated for roaming to that machine, or other under conditions. A user may therefore readily and with a comparative minimum of configuration effort select and effectuate the sharing of a set of frequently used or otherwise desired files to an arbitrary set of machines which they own or use, without a need to invoke a remote server or other control or storage to back up and synchronize that content.

20070233647, Oct 4, 2007

Mar 30, 2006

11/278000

Anshul Rawat - Kirkland WA, US
Chris Guzak - Kirkland WA, US
Edward Averett - Kirkland WA, US
John Brezak - Woodinville WA, US
Mohammed Samji - Bellevue WA, US
Ramkumar Ramasubramanian - Bellevue WA, US
Robert Sweeney - Bothell WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707003000

Systems and methods are provided for sharing items and viewing shared items in an operating system. A user may initiate a search that executes a query on the file system, returning a list of items owned by the user and shared out to other users. In order to increase efficiency and usability of such a query, an index may be created based on the owner and user permissions of the items in the file system. A user interface integrated into the operating system may display the shared items in a single flat list, or search folder, regardless of the various physical locations of the items on the system.