Patents by Inventor William D Devlin
William D Devlin 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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Publication number: 20150319247Abstract: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: George P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Abhay V. Parasnis, Anthony D. Andrews, Raymond E. Ozzie, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar
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Patent number: 9135279Abstract: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: George P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Abhay V. Parasnis, Anthony D. Andrews, Raymond E. Ozzie, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar
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Patent number: 8954507Abstract: Systems, methods, and user interfaces for gathering and using awareness information with common awareness functionality accessible to multiple applications are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and user interfaces may aggregate awareness information from multiple sources and provide awareness data and other derived information to multiple destinations. In some implementations, such systems and methods may provide additional functionality related to awareness information, such as common user interfaces that display awareness information or mechanisms for determining the relevance of particular pieces of awareness information.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, George P. Moromisato, Abhay V Parasnis, Noah B Edelstein, William D. Devlin, Anthony D Andrews
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Patent number: 8364759Abstract: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Abhay V. Parasnis, Anthony D. Andrews, Raymond E. Ozzie, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar
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Publication number: 20110040850Abstract: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Abhay V. Parasnis, Anthony D. Andrews, Raymond E. Ozzie, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar
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Patent number: 7853669Abstract: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Abhay V. Parasnis, Anthony D. Andrews, Raymond E. Ozzie, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar
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Patent number: 7657580Abstract: A virtual applications architecture is provided according to the present invention. The architecture includes a topology manager for managing applications across a plurality of members, and a virtual applications manager for defining a plurality of resources comprising the applications. The topology manager communicates with the plurality of members to initiate scaling of the applications associated with the virtual applications manager to the members. The architecture may also include a replication system for deploying the applications to the members.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2005Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philippe Choquier, Quentin J. Clark, William D. Devlin, Lara N. Dillingham, Cameron J. A. Ferroni, Justin Grant, Rodney T. Limprecht, John F. Ludeman, Alexander E. Mallet, Boyd C. Multerer, Martin J. Sleeman, Michael W. Thomas
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Patent number: 7620617Abstract: An abstraction layer in a catalog management system for accessing system configuration information. The catalog management system presents the configuration information that is stored in a datastore to a computer process by storing the information in cache memory so that the datastore is encapsulated from the caller. The request for the configuration information may be both location independent and type independent.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert M Craig, William D. Devlin
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Publication number: 20090112870Abstract: Systems and methods of distributed storage are disclosed herein. A request to store data in a client computer is received. A request is sent from the client computer to a storage service to create a core object such that the core object can be created with a member entry to a member feed in the core object. The member feed can be indicative of one or more entities that are permitted to access to the core object. A message is received at the client computer with the core object. A replica of the core object on the client computer is created. The client computer can add the data as a data entry to a data feed in the core object. An updating message is sent to the storage service. The message can include a copy of the replica of the core object including the data entry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, George P. Moromisato, Anthony Dean Andrews, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar, William Michael Zintel, Dharma K. Shukla, Abolade Gbadegesin
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Publication number: 20080320025Abstract: Systems, methods, and user interfaces for gathering and using awareness information with common awareness functionality accessible to multiple applications are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and user interfaces may aggregate awareness information from multiple sources and provide awareness data and other derived information to multiple destinations. In some implementations, such systems and methods may provide additional functionality related to awareness information, such as common user interfaces that display awareness information or mechanisms for determining the relevance of particular pieces of awareness information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2007Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, George P. Moromisato, Abhay V. Parasnis, Noah B. Edelstein, William D. Devlin, Anthony D. Andrews
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Publication number: 20080276181Abstract: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George P. Moromisato, Noah B. Edelstein, Abhay V. Parasnis, Anthony D. Andrews, Raymond E. Ozzie, William D. Devlin, Akash J. Sagar
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Patent number: 7155462Abstract: A method and apparatus enabling migration of clients to a specific version of a server-hosted application, where multiple software versions of the server-hosted application are installed on the network, such that clients using the application experience minimal downtime related to upgrades and revisions of the application. When a new version of the application is to be deployed, a selected small portion of the clients is directed to the new version, to verify the functionality of that version, while the remaining clients use the previous version. If problems are discovered in the new version, the upgrade is terminated without impacting all of the clients. A register retains the identity of the clients and the version of the software with which each client is associated. The direction of the selected portion of clients to the new version of the software is done in a manner that can be completely transparent to the clients.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2002Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Shaiwal Singh, William D. Devlin, John Eric Gilbert, Dave Tamasi
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Patent number: 6961681Abstract: A virtual applications architecture is provided according to the present invention. The architecture includes a topology manager for managing applications across a plurality of members, and a virtual applications manager for defining a plurality of resources comprising the applications. The topology manager communicates with the plurality of members to initiate scaling of the applications associated with the virtual applications manager to the members. The architecture may also include a replication system for deploying the applications to the members.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2000Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philippe Choquier, Quentin J. Clark, William D. Devlin, Lara N. Dillingham, Cameron J. A. Ferroni, Justin Grant, Rodney T. Limprecht, John F. Ludeman, Alexander E. Mallet, Boyd C. Multerer, Martin J. Sleeman, Michael W. Thomas
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Patent number: 6917933Abstract: An abstraction layer in a catalog management system for accessing system configuration information. The catalog management system presents the configuration information that is stored in a datastore to a computer process by storing the information in cache memory so that the datastore is encapsulated from the caller. The request for the configuration information may be both location independent and type independent.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2002Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert M. Craig, William D Devlin
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Patent number: 6598037Abstract: A data table object module which is a component based object that provides configuration information to a caller in response to a request for information. The present invention also relates to an implementation that exposes a standard interface for callers desiring to access the data as part of an overall catalog management system or schema. The data table interface is substantially separate from the program code related to the catalog schema to thus enable the creation and addition of new data table objects to a catalog system with out recompiling the entire catalog management system program code.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert M. Craig, William D. Devlin
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Publication number: 20030074362Abstract: An abstraction layer in a catalog management system for accessing system configuration information. The catalog management system presents the configuration information that is stored in a datastore to a computer process by storing the information in cache memory so that the datastore is encapsulated from the caller.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert M. Craig, William D. Devlin
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Patent number: 6421682Abstract: An abstraction layer in a catalog management system for accessing system configuration information. The catalog management system presents the configuration information that is stored in a datastore to a computer process by storing the information in cache memory so that the datastore is encapsulated from the caller. The request for the configuration information may be both location independent and type independent.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert M. Craig, William D. Devlin
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Patent number: 6377960Abstract: An improved registration datastore comprises a datastore containing the database coupled to a data table object structure to present the data to a registration system in the form of an abstract table of data. The use of a data table structure between the registration system and the datastore provides storage location and format independence as the data table object presents the registration data to a calling object in the form of a data level table, a collection of configuration data items. The improved registration system permits one or more objects to be simultaneously installed into the registration database by different sources. The new registration system utilizes a database versioning and aging mechanism to permit multiple calling objects to operate using a version of the database known to be valid when its operations began.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Wenjun Qiu, Jason L. Zander, Markus Horstmann, William D. Devlin
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Patent number: 6014666Abstract: A programming model for component-based server applications provides declarative and programmatic access control at development without knowledge of the security configuration at deployment. The developer defines the server application access control by defining logical classes of users, called roles. The developer also can declare access privileges of the roles at package, component and interface levels of the server application. At development, the roles are bound to the particular security configuration of the server computer. The programming model also provides application programming and integration interfaces with which the developer can programmatically define access control of the roles to the server application's processing services.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1997Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick James Helland, Rodney Limprecht, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, David R. Reed, William D. Devlin