Microsoft patents context-based policies for securing remote virtual device connections
Microsoft has filed a patent application for a method to secure connections between a user's device and a virtual computer in the cloud. The system uses an authentication context, which includes details about the user's account and the device's current state, to decide how to handle the connection. Based on this information, the system can control specific redirection features of the session to improve security.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, apparatuses, and products for context-based connection policies for securing remote virtual device connections, including: receiving, from a client device, a request to establish a session with a virtual computing device implemented in a cloud computing environment, wherein the request comprises an authentication context received by the client device from an authentication service, wherein the authentication context describes a user account associated with the client device and an operational state of the client device; establishing the session between the client device and the virtual computing device; and controlling one or more redirection features of the session based on the authentication context.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of securing a remote virtual computing device connection, comprising: receiving, from a client device, a request to establish a session with a virtual computing device implemented in a cloud computing environment, wherein the request comprises an authentication context received by the client device from an authentication service, wherein the authentication context describes a user account associated with the client device and an operational state of the client device; establishing the session between the client device and the virtual computing device; and controlling one or more redirection features of the session based on the authentication context.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- CONTEXT-BASED CONNECTION POLICIES FOR SECURING REMOTE VIRTUAL DEVICE CONNECTIONS
- Publication number
- US20260303584A1
- Application number
- 19573193
- Filed
- Mar 20, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- 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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