US 2017/0374138 A1Published application

Multiuser Application Platform

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsMuhammad Usman Anwer, Jonathan D. Wiswall, Abolade Gbadegesin, Logananth Seetharaman, Kunal Ramesh Gandhi, John Michael Sheehan, John R. Schmeichel, Chin H. Lam, Kelly W. Connell, Jeremy B. Gup, Daniel R. Mitchell, Jill Cary Bender, Adam Michael Smith, Adam D. Stritzel, Jason G. Salameh, Denise Su-Li Goh, Fan Xiao

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Abstract

Techniques for multiuser application platform are described. Generally, a multiuser application allow interaction by multiple different users with a single executing instance of the application. Implementations include a multiuser operating system and a multiuser application programming interface that enable interaction by multiple users with an executing instance of a multiuser application.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
one or more computer-readable storage media including instructions stored thereon that are executable by the at least one processor to cause the system to:
receive a request to launch a multiuser application on the system;
determine a context of the request to launch the multiuser application;
ascertain whether to launch the multiuser application as a multiuser instance or a single user instance based on the context of the request;
and
launch the multiuser application as either the multiuser instance or the single user instance in response to said ascertaining.

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A computer system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
one or more computer-readable storage media including instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to implement:
an operating system configured to enable multiple user identities (IDs) to be concurrently in an authenticated state with the operating system;
and
an application programming interface (API) configured to enable communication between the operating system and an executing multiuser instance of a multiuser application, the communication including the operating system notifying the executing multiuser instance of the multiuser application that different inputs to the computer system are attributed to different respective user IDs of the multiple user IDs, and without requiring the different respective user IDs to be authenticated with the executing multiuser instance of the multiuser application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/390,282Filed 23 Dec 2016
Priority: 28 Jun 2016
Published: 28 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
G06F 9/445
Arrangements for executing specific programs: program loading or initiating
G06F 9/541
Interprogram communication: via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication