Samuel C King

US Patent:

8024815, Sep 20, 2011

Filed:

Sep 15, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/532127

Inventors:

Jacob R. Lorch - Bellevue WA, US
Yi-Min Wang - Bellevue WA, US
Chad Verbowski - Redmond WA, US
Helen J. Wang - Issaquah WA, US
Samuel King - Urbana IL, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/04
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

726 29

Abstract:

In an embodiment of isolation environment-based information access, programs—including operating systems and applications—running on a computing-based device can be isolated in an environment such as a virtual machine. Information including commands and/or data transmitted between the computing-based device and the program(s) being run, as well as information associated with the program(s) and the computing-based device, is accessed without being detected by the program(s). In one implementation, the information includes state information as well as commands and/or data—including sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords. In another implementation, the information can be used to secretly access the program(s).