US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 21 for "Synchronizing security groups" (Norwegian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,296, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Synchronizing security groups" was invented by Isabell Lin (Redmond, Wash.), Paul Mathew (Redmond, Wash.), Ana Monica Irimia (Adliswil, Switzerland), John Ronald Berkeley (Kenmore, Wash.), Thomas Fagerlie Gundersen (Trondheim, Norway) and Naresh Sundaram (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Documents maintained by a first storage system that supports security groups are synchronized to a second storage system that supports group entities, which are incompatible with security groups. Permissions associated with the synchronized docu...