Neil D Robinson

US Patent:

20130073531, Mar 21, 2013

Filed:

Sep 19, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/235573

Inventors:

Neil Robinson - Bellevue WA, US
Annette Bruer - Fargo ND, US
Clifford Hoglund - Deerfield NH, US
Jarek Wyganowski - Fargo ND, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707694, 707E17005

Abstract:

A system is provided for integrating custom policy rules with a policy validation process for validating forms within an organization. The system may enable the organization to create new policy rules and to customize existing policy rules for forms according to various specifications. The custom policy rules may be stored in policy database and the policy validation process may be applied to validate submitted forms against the custom policy rules for identifying policy rule violations. The system may automatically apply the policy validation process upon the submission of a form to the organization for identifying violations before posting the form to the organization's system. The system may generate a policy violation results list, and may provide a display message for indicating when policy violations have been identified in the submitted form, and may also present options to the user for addressing the policy violation and approving the form.

US Patent:

20130246106, Sep 19, 2013

Filed:

Jul 16, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/549531

Inventors:

Kimberly J. Kroetsch - Fargo ND, US
Ramaswamy Narayana - Sammamish WA, US
Neil D. Robinson - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06Q 10/06

US Classification:

705 712

Abstract:

A hierarchical budgeting structure is generated and used for generating and reviewing budgets during the budget planning process. Automated workflows for generating the budget and iteratively reviewing the budget are determined based upon the hierarchical budgeting structure. The hierarchical budgeting structure is first defined and that hierarchical budgeting structure is used to control flow of the information during the budget planning process. Nodes in the hierarchal structure each have an associated workflow and a set of rules that control activities that can be performed at a given node and that control security features corresponding to that node.