US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Automated policy enforcement in networked devices" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,605, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated policy enforcement in networked devices" was invented by Gal Asher Shachor (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Meir Baruch Blachman (Jerusalem), Nesia Avivi (Modiin, Israel) and Scott Stephen Sheehan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A "hybrid" policy execution mechanism is provided herein. A hybrid policy execution server uses initial context data received from a client device is to partially execute a 'full' policy, resulting in a (simplified) local policy that can be implemented at the client device. The local policy indicates...