US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Virtual scopes for resource management" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,521, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual scopes for resource management" was invented by Weijie Li (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bhavesh Chandrakant Doshi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling access to resource objects in a cloud-based storage system, and application server therefor, includes defining role-based access scopes and user-based virtual scopes for resources in the cloud-based storage system. A role-based access scope is used to define actions that may be performed with a requested resource based on a role of the user making the request. A virtua...