Microsoft patents system to manage local and remote computers with one rule
Microsoft describes a software engine that creates a single set of rules for both a user's local computer and a remote machine they connect to. This unified policy is applied during a remote session, ensuring both devices follow the same security and management settings.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing unified device management using a unified device management engine of a device management system are described. Device management refers to administering, controlling, and maintaining various types of computing devices. The unified device management engine provides a unified policy object that supports unified management of a remote client and a local client using a unified policy. A unified policy object for a remote client and a local client is configured. The unified policy object is a combined management configuration that enables enforcement of a unified policy on both the remote client and the local client. The unified policy is communicated to the remote client. Unified device management data associated with the unified policy, the remote client, and the local client is generated. The unified device management data is communicated to cause display of the unified device management data on a device management interface.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computerized system comprising: one or more computer processors; and computer memory storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations, the operations comprising: configuring a unified policy object for a remote client and a local client, wherein the unified policy object is a combined management configuration that enables enforcement of a unified policy of the unified policy object on both the remote client and the local client; communicating the unified policy to the remote client, wherein the unified policy is temporarily enforced on the local client via the remote client during a remote session between the remote client and the local client; generating unified device management data associated with the unified policy, the remote client, and the local client, wherein the unified device management data comprises information associated with a unified device management state for the remote client and the local client, wherein the unified device management state comprises a tracked state representing a collective status of the remote client and the local client; and communicating the unified device management data to cause display of the unified device management data on a device management interface.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- Unified device management engine in a device management system
- Patent number
- US12732542B2
- Application number
- 18611563
- Filed
- Mar 20, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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