Microsoft Patents Changing User Privileges Temporarily On The Fl...

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 11/11/2009 - 18:50

Someone who prefers to remain anonymous points out that the USPTO, in its infinite wisdom, has granted Microsoft a patent (7,617,530) on a method for "elevating" a user's rights temporarily .

Basically, it's for a non-admin user who wants to do something (e.g., install a program) that requires admin access, without having to logout and re-login as the admin.

As the submitter notes, this sounds like "sudo " or any number of other tools that have been around...

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