Patents by Inventor Anthony Dean Andrews

Anthony Dean Andrews has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7536606
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically generating an accurate model of communications processes between disparate computing systems that may be analyzed in an efficient manner for error detection in web services systems. Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) descriptions are automatically generated for the BPEL-based executable processes utilized by each communicating computing system in a given web services system. The BPEL abstract process descriptions for each communicating computing system are translated into a combined process model according to a suitable modeling language. The process model is tested by a model checking software application. Communications errors between the disparate computing systems are detected by automatically testing the combined process model according to a variety of potential communications scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Dean Andrews, Sriram K. Rajamani, Jakob Rehob
  • Publication number: 20090112870
    Abstract: Systems and methods of distributed storage are disclosed herein. A request to store data in a client computer is received. A request is sent from the client computer to a storage service to create a core object such that the core object can be created with a member entry to a member feed in the core object. The member feed can be indicative of one or more entities that are permitted to access to the core object. A message is received at the client computer with the core object. A replica of the core object on the client computer is created. The client computer can add the data as a data entry to a data feed in the core object. An updating message is sent to the storage service. The message can include a copy of the replica of the core object including the data entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, George P. Moromisato, Anthony Dean Andrews, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar, William Michael Zintel, Dharma K. Shukla, Abolade Gbadegesin
  • Patent number: 7380166
    Abstract: An error-handling framework is provided for business process transactions. The error-handling framework facilitates coordination of the invocation of exception and compensation handlers in response to errors. The error-handling framework includes support for custom ordering of compensation actions, data flow into and out of compensation actions, and management of the process state visible to compensation actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Satish Ramchandra Thatte, Lucius Gregory Meredith, Marc Levy, Bimal Kumar Mehta, Johannes Klein, Anthony Dean Andrews
  • Patent number: 6918053
    Abstract: An error-handling framework is provided for business process transactions. The error-handling framework facilitates coordination of the invocation of exception and compensation handlers in response to errors. The error-handling framework includes support for custom ordering of compensation actions, data flow into and out of compensation actions, and management of the process state visible to compensation actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Satish Ramchandra Thatte, Lucius Gregory Meredith, Marc Levy, Bimal Kumar Mehta, Johannes Klein, Anthony Dean Andrews
  • Publication number: 20030217094
    Abstract: A system and method facilitating business process(es) employing a correlation set is provided. The invention includes a system for sending message(s) having a data retrieval component and a service component. The data retrieval provides an output to the service component based on a schema and a business process type. The service component generates a message having a correlation set based on the output of the data retrieval component. To initiate a business process, the service component generates an activation message and the correlation set, the correlation set uniquely identifying the business process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Anthony Dean Andrews, Johannes Klein, Bimal Kumar Mehta, Satish Ramchandra Thatte