Patents by Inventor Bradford Ruffin Daniels

Bradford Ruffin Daniels 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).

  • Method and system for analyzing the impact of a software update
    Patent number: 7614046
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing the impact on software of an update to a software system is provided. The impact analysis system identifies resources that are affected by an update to the software system and identifies resources that are accessed by various software components during execution of the software components. To analyze the effects of an update, the impact analysis system identifies those accessed resources of the software components that are affected by the update as being impacted resources. The impact analysis system considers those software components that access the impacted resources to be impacted software components. The impact analysis system provides a user interface through which a user can view and analyze the impact of an update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford Ruffin Daniels, John Dunagan, Roussi A. Roussev, Chad E. Verbowski, Yi-Min Wang