Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced management of access rights for dynamic user groups sharing secret data
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Application No.: US16702332Application Date: 2019-12-03
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Publication No.: US11455412B2Publication Date: 2022-09-27
- Inventor: Alexander Weiss , Eric Scott Albright , Dustyn J. Tubbs , Paresh Lukka , Andrew V. Spiziri , Lawrence Fubini Waldman
- Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Newport IP, LLC
- Agent Scott Y. Shigeta
- Main IPC: G06F21/62
- IPC: G06F21/62 ; G06F16/182 ; G06F16/13 ; G06F21/31 ; G06F21/60 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
This disclosure provides enhanced management of access rights for dynamic groups of users sharing secret data. Instead of relying on traditional administrative techniques for modifying access rights for stored data, the techniques disclosed herein allow a storage service to communicate with a group management system to verify membership of user groups, e.g., channels, chat session, or meetings, and automatically change access rights to stored data as users leave or join a group. Encrypted data can be stored within a storage vault. The storage vault can be dedicated to storing encrypted data shared between a user group, e.g. a channel. A server managing the storage vault can receive membership data from a group management service. As users join the group or leave a group managed by the group management service, each user's access permissions to the storage vault can be added, removed or modified.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210165898A1 ENHANCED MANAGEMENT OF ACCESS RIGHTS FOR DYNAMIC USER GROUPS SHARING SECRET DATA Public/Granted day:2021-06-03
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