Patents by Inventor Bradley J. Barrows

Bradley J. Barrows 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: 10637919
    Abstract: Variety of approaches to provide an autonomous governor in a distributed system for preserving a shared resource are described. A hosted service initiates operations to provide the autonomous governor upon determining the shared resource to be managed. An initial lease count is designated to the shared resource. The initial lease count corresponds to an estimated capacity of the shared resource. Next, an assigned lease count is determined by incrementing or decrementing the initial lease count based on a detected actual capacity of the shared resource. Upon detecting a steady state of the assigned lease count, the assigned lease count is incremented to determine whether the actual capacity of the shared resource is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. Barrows, YanWen Qiao, Kevin Chan, Stephane Cavin
  • Publication number: 20180278542
    Abstract: Variety of approaches to provide an autonomous governor in a distributed system for preserving a shared resource are described. A hosted service initiates operations to provide the autonomous governor upon determining the shared resource to be managed. An initial lease count is designated to the shared resource. The initial lease count corresponds to an estimated capacity of the shared resource. Next, an assigned lease count is determined by incrementing or decrementing the initial lease count based on a detected actual capacity of the shared resource. Upon detecting a steady state of the assigned lease count, the assigned lease count is incremented to determine whether the actual capacity of the shared resource is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. Barrows, YanWen Qiao, Kevin Chan, Stephane Cavin
  • Patent number: 8380931
    Abstract: A data center system includes a memory cache coupled to a data center controller. The memory cache includes volatile memory and stores data that is persisted in a database in a different data center system that is located remotely from the data center system rather than in the first data center system. The data center controller reads data from the memory cache and writes data to the memory cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Vikas Rajvanshy, Bradley J. Barrows, Michael J. McCann, Hasrat Godil, Xinguang Chen, Oludare V. Obasanjo, Paul R. C. Ming
  • Publication number: 20110225367
    Abstract: A data center system includes a memory cache coupled to a data center controller. The memory cache includes volatile memory and stores data that is persisted in a database in a different data center system that is located remotely from the data center system rather than in the first data center system. The data center controller reads data from the memory cache and writes data to the memory cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Vikas Rajvanshy, Bradley J. Barrows, Michael J. McCann, Hasrat Godil, Xinguang Chen, Oludare V. Obasanjo, Paul R. C. Ming
  • Publication number: 20100121855
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for accessing and managing an online storage system is disclosed. Access to a storage resource in a multiple server storage system is provided by sending to a lookup partitioning service server a resource identifier that is associated with a storage resource stored in a particular storage partition of a storage server. The LPS returns the looked-up partition that stores the storage resource associated with the resource identifier. Access to the storage resource is then enabled to the looked-up storage partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Apurva F. Dalia, Craig Allen Harry, Nishant Dani, Shan Jiang, Brad Dean Thompson, Bradley J. Barrows, David R. Shutt
  • Patent number: 7676551
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for accessing and managing an online storage system is disclosed. Access to a storage resource in a multiple server storage system is provided by sending to a lookup partitioning service server a resource identifier that is associated with a storage resource stored in a particular storage partition of a storage server. The LPS returns the looked-up partition that stores the storage resource associated with the resource identifier. Access to the storage resource is then enabled to the looked-up storage partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Apurva F. Dalia, Craig Allen Harry, Nishant Dani, Shan Jiang, Brad Dean Thompson, Bradley J. Barrows, David R. Shutt
  • Patent number: 7058958
    Abstract: A client programming model with abstraction hides from an underlying client application or application program interface (API) the details of where each element of data is located, and which copy of the data is resident on an available server and associated databases. The model wraps a database, such as a virtual database, and provides data-dependent and application-dependent routing, failover, and operational administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Shutt, Bradley J. Barrows, Suwat Chitphakdibodin