Patents by Inventor M. Paramasivam

M. Paramasivam 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).

  • Prerequisite rights
    Publication number: 20040098602
    Abstract: A computer-implemented mechanism for granting rights to a resource is described. A license identifies one or more principals, resources, rights and conditions. The license also conditions a right to be granted on the existence of one or more prerequisite rights. Before allowing an entity to exercise the right to be granted, a resource or other entity checks to determine whether the prerequisite rights exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John DeTreville, Bob Atkinson, Brian A. LaMacchia, M. Paramasivam
  • Digital licenses that include universally quantified variables
    Publication number: 20040098492
    Abstract: A computer-implemented mechanism for granting rights to a resource is described. A license identifies one or more principals, resources, rights and conditions in fields of the license. The license fields include one or more instances of one or more variables. The variables are universally quantified so that each variable may be any one of a set of values. All instances of any given variable are bound to the same value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bob Atkinson, Brian A. LaMacchia, John DeTreville, M. Paramasivam, Xin Wang, Thomas DeMartini
  • Inheriting code in a transformational programming system
    Patent number: 6493869
    Abstract: A transformation programming system allows code to be inherited. A question and answer methodology is used among question handlers corresponding to nodes of a graph representing the program being transformed. A question handler can inherit code from another question handler by submitting a question requesting the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Kwiatkowski, David Richter, M. Paramasivam