Patents by Inventor Terry Zmrhal

Terry Zmrhal 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: 7761586
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing and manipulating data in a data flow graph. A data flow graph includes one more transforms for transforming data from one or more data stores into different formats accessible to clients. Transforms can be configured to join and split data from the same or different data stores. A metadata tree logically represents the data flow graph including locations that provide output from transforms of the data flow graph. The locations can be referenced by clients to access transformed outputs. Clients can register dependencies on data at various locations and can request evaluation of the data in response to data changes at a corresponding data store. Clients can also request data changes be propagated back through the data flow graph to one or more data stores and implemented at the one or more data stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brad M. Olenick, Clemens A. Szyperski, David George Hunt, Gregory Lawrence Hughes, William A. Manis, Terry Zmrhal
  • Publication number: 20070198457
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing and manipulating data in a data flow graph. A data flow graph includes one more transforms for transforming data from one or more data stores into different formats accessible to clients. Transforms can be configured to join and split data from the same or different data stores. A metadata tree logically represents the data flow graph including locations that provide output from transforms of the data flow graph. The locations can be referenced by clients to access transformed outputs. Clients can register dependencies on data at various locations and can request evaluation of the data in response to data changes at a corresponding data store. Clients can also request data changes be propagated back through the data flow graph to one or more data stores and implemented at the one or more data stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brad Olenick, Clemens Szyperski, David Hunt, Gregory Hughes, William Manis, Terry Zmrhal
  • Publication number: 20060248104
    Abstract: A method and system for maintaining isolated data in an application is disclosed which data to be selectively isolated until a data client orders the changes to be committed or abandoned. A computer-readable medium for constructing an application capable of localized data isolation is also disclosed. An application specification is used to determine which data entities should be isolated, and one or more transaction transforms are implemented for each data entity to be isolated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Arshad Ahmad, Brad Olenick, Clemens Szyperski, David Hunt, Terry Zmrhal, Yuri Rychikhin