US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 26 for "Computer device and method for selective content isolation" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,981, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computer device and method for selective content isolation" was invented by Vikas Malik (Bothell, Wash.), Nir Mardiks Rappaport (Bellevue, Wash.) and Vinay Kumar Shiva (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more examples, a network proxy agent runs inside an isolated (e.g. sandboxed or virtualized) execution environment and a non-isolated application (e.g., web browser) instance runs outside of the isolated execution environment. The network proxy agent acts as a proxy in the sense that network traffic to and from the ap...