US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Method and system of providing security for anonymous autodiscover services" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,120, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of providing security for anonymous autodiscover services" was invented by Dean Shiyu Chiang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Deepak Kumar Singh (Lynwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for securing an anonymous discovery service may include receiving a request from a client device, the request being directed to an anonymous Autodiscover service, identifying a source from which the request originated from within the client device, and responsive to the source being of a first type of sources, transmitting a f...