Patent ID: 11870890
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the computer to:
receive an access request from a third client device associated with the third user, the access request requesting the encrypted secret data;
in response to the access request, communicate a verification request to a group management system, the verification request comprising the identity of the third user and a group identifier associated with the user group and the vault;
receive an access confirmation from the group management system, the access confirmation indicating the membership status of the third user for the user group associated with the group identifier; and
in response to receiving the access confirmation indicating that the third user is a current member of the group, communicate a new encrypted vault key to a third client device of the third user, wherein the encrypted vault key is generated by encrypting the vault key on the second client device.