Patents by Inventor Rebecca Benfield
Rebecca Benfield 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).
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Patent number: 8924589Abstract: High availability architecture that employs a mid-tier proxy server to route client communications to active data store instances in response to failover and switchover. The proxy server includes an active manager client that interfaces to an active manager in each of the backend servers. State information and configuration information are maintained separately and according to semantics consistent with needs of corresponding data, the configuration information changing less frequently and more available, the state information changing more frequently and less available. The active manager indicates to the proxy server which of the data storage instances is the currently the active instance. In the event that the currently active instance is inactive, the proxy server selects a different backend server that currently hosts the active data store instance. Client communications are then routed to the different backend server with minimal or no interruption to the client.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Thiel, Alexander R. Wetmore, Ayla Kol, Rebecca Benfield, James Kleewein, Naresh Sundaram, Yogesh Bansal, Mark Wistrom, Manoharan Kuppusamy
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Publication number: 20120331336Abstract: High availability architecture that employs a mid-tier proxy server to route client communications to active data store instances in response to failover and switchover. The proxy server includes an active manager client that interfaces to an active manager in each of the backend servers. State information and configuration information are maintained separately and according to semantics consistent with needs of corresponding data, the configuration information changing less frequently and more available, the state information changing more frequently and less available. The active manager indicates to the proxy server which of the data storage instances is the currently the active instance. In the event that the currently active instance is inactive, the proxy server selects a different backend server that currently hosts the active data store instance. Client communications are then routed to the different backend server with minimal or no interruption to the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory Thiel, Alexander R. Wetmore, Ayla Kol, Rebecca Benfield, James Kleewein, Naresh Sundaram, Yogesh Bansal, Mark Wistrom, Manoharan Kuppusamy
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Patent number: 8275907Abstract: High availability architecture that employs a mid-tier proxy server to route client communications to active data store instances in response to failover and switchover. The proxy server includes an active manager client that interfaces to an active manager in each of the backend servers. State information and configuration information are maintained separately and according to semantics consistent with needs of corresponding data, the configuration information changing less frequently and more available, the state information changing more frequently and less available. The active manager indicates to the proxy server which of the data storage instances is the currently the active instance. In the event that the currently active instance is inactive, the proxy server selects a different backend server that currently hosts the active data store instance. Client communications are then routed to the different backend server with minimal or no interruption to the client.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Thiel, Alexander R. Wetmore, Ayla Kol, Rebecca Benfield, James Kleewein, Naresh Sundaram, Yogesh Bansal, Mark Wistrom, Manoharan Kuppusamy
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Patent number: 8001413Abstract: A central controlling service for datacenter activation/deactivation control in a cluster deployment to assist in preventing a split-brain scenario. The central controlling service provides a central point of control in the datacenter for application servers to periodically query as to whether to go offline, online, or normal. Redundancy of the central service facilitates detection of datacenter failure by the redundant services interacting to resolve the state of control information. This control information is then used to answer the server queries. On startup from a datacenter failure, a single instance of the central service queries other redundant instance(s) to determine if the single instance is starting up from a datacenter-wide failure or from operations other than total datacenter failure. If the failure is datacenter-wide, a central service protocol assists in resolving to the single service keeping the associated datacenter servers offline; otherwise, the server queries are answered to go online.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander R Wetmore, Gregory Thiel, Ayla Kol, Rebecca Benfield
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Patent number: 7908514Abstract: Architecture that reduces data loss resulting from failover in an asynchronous log shipping deployment, but leveraging mid-tier and frontend servers to fill in lost data. In an asynchronous log shipping operation, a replication component asynchronously replicates messaging data to a backend server in accordance with one or more replication operations, which can be updates to databases on the backend server. These databases can include messaging data, such as email address books, mailboxes, etc. A history component maintains a history of replication operations on a frontend server. In the event of a lossy failover, a replay component is used for replaying the replication operations from the history to the backend server.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gregory Thiel, Alexander R. Wetmore, Shawn Bracewell, Rebecca Benfield
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Publication number: 20090327805Abstract: Architecture that reduces data loss resulting from failover in an asynchronous log shipping deployment, but leveraging mid-tier and frontend servers to fill in lost data. In an asynchronous log shipping operation, a replication component asynchronously replicates messaging data to a backend server in accordance with one or more replication operations, which can be updates to databases on the backend server. These databases can include messaging data, such as email address books, mailboxes, etc. A history component maintains a history of replication operations on a frontend server. In the event of a lossy failover, a replay component is used for replaying the replication operations from the history to the backend server.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory Thiel, Alexander R. Wetmore, Shawn Bracewell, Rebecca Benfield
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Publication number: 20090327519Abstract: High availability architecture that employs a mid-tier proxy server to route client communications to active data store instances in response to failover and switchover. The proxy server includes an active manager client that interfaces to an active manager in each of the backend servers. State information and configuration information are maintained separately and according to semantics consistent with needs of corresponding data, the configuration information changing less frequently and more available, the state information changing more frequently and less available. The active manager indicates to the proxy server which of the data storage instances is the currently the active instance. In the event that the currently active instance is inactive, the proxy server selects a different backend server that currently hosts the active data store instance. Client communications are then routed to the different backend server with minimal or no interruption to the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory Thiel, Alexander R. Wetmore, Ayla Kol, Rebecca Benfield, James Kleewein, Naresh Sundaram, Yogesh Bansal, Mark Wistrom, Manoharan Kuppusamy
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Publication number: 20090276657Abstract: A central controlling service for datacenter activation/deactivation control in a cluster deployment to assist in preventing a split-brain scenario. The central controlling service provides a central point of control in the datacenter for application servers to periodically query as to whether to go offline, online, or normal. Redundancy of the central service facilitates detection of datacenter failure by the redundant services interacting to resolve the state of control information. This control information is then used to answer the server queries. On startup from a datacenter failure, a single instance of the central service queries other redundant instance(s) to determine if the single instance is starting up from a datacenter-wide failure or from operations other than total datacenter failure. If the failure is datacenter-wide, a central service protocol assists in resolving to the single service keeping the associated datacenter servers offline; otherwise, the server queries are answered to go online.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2008Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander R. Wetmore, Gregory Thiel, Ayla Kol, Rebecca Benfield