Associating computing devices with common credentials

US8510808B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Brian L. McNeil · Kirkland, US
• Michael G. Sheldon · Seattle, US
• Steve Seixeiro · Snohomish, US
• Ramkumar Ramasubramanian · Bellevue, US
• Jerry K. Koh · Redmond, US
• Anshul Rawat · Kirkland, US
• Andrew V. Davidson · Kirkland, US
• Daniel Oliver · Seattle, US
• Michael D. McCormack · Plano, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 8, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 13, 2013
• Expiry date: May 18, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L63/0815
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Method and computer storage media for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common non-enterprise network. A common set of credentials is stored on at least two or more of a plurality of computing devices that reside behind a routing device and are associated through a common non-enterprise network. Upon storing the common set of credentials, each of the two or more of a plurality of computing devices create a local account that contains, at least, the common set of credentials. The common set of credentials allow for the sharing, among the two or more of the plurality of computing devices, of resource that reside on or are associated with the computing devices.