Patents Assigned to BEA Systems, Inc.
  • Sharing dynamically changing resources in software systems
    Patent number: 7689999
    Abstract: A system and method for sharing a set of resources among a plurality of processes, comprising creating a version of a resource for each one of the plurality of processes that requires access to the resource wherein a version of the resource is one of: 1) a representation of the resource at a particular point in time; and 2) a transformation of the resource; making each of the created versions available to the plurality of processes; and notifying a process in the plurality of processes when a resource in the set of resources upon which the process requires access is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jess Garms, Britton Worth Piehler
  • Disconnectible applications
    Patent number: 7685258
    Abstract: Embodiments provide mechanisms and methods for providing disconnectible applications capable of executing at least semi-autonomously, i.e., without needing constant contact with a server, on a client substantially independent of server connectivity. The ability of a disconnectible application to execute on a client substantially independent of server connectivity can enable enhanced flexibility in organizing applications to build data processing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Breeden, Skip Sauls, Christopher Jolley
  • System and method for providing testing for a communities framework
    Patent number: 7680927
    Abstract: A community for maintaining user membership can be provided. Each major component of the communities framework can have multiple portals associated with its series of tests. Each of these portals can start out as a portal file. These portal files can be ran through the dissassembler in order to render the portals representing individual community instances. Once the community instance is created for the portal, various HTML unit tests can be written by the developer in order to access that portal as some user with given membership and functional capabilities. The test framework can automatically create users giving them membership in the community and mapping them to membership capabilities. The component code can subsequently be accessed in the context of a real user or member of the community. In this manner, a more realistic and efficient testing environment is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Cindy McMullen, Amy Cleveland
  • Systems and methods for application view transactions
    Patent number: 7676538
    Abstract: Local transactions are supported by an application view instance that can switch from a stateless session bean to a stateful session bean in order to open a connection for a local transaction. The state that the stateful session bean holds is ten the connection. The stateful session bean can hold the connection open across multiple requests in the local transaction interface allows a user to manage the transaction in the application view, and to switch the application view between a stateless session bean and a stateful session bean. A local transaction interface can contain a local transaction management contract, which enables an application server to provide an infrastructure and run-time environment for management of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Potter, Mitch Upton, Christa Golding, Rick DeGrande
  • System and method for maintaining security in a distributed computer network
    Patent number: 7673323
    Abstract: A system and method for maintaining security in a distributed computing environment comprises a policy manager located on a server for managing and distributing a security policy, and an application guard located on a client for managing access to securable components as specified by the security policy. In the preferred embodiment, a global policy specifies access privileges of the user to securable components. The policy manager may then preferably distribute a local client policy based on the global policy to the client. An application guard located on the client then manages access to the securable components as specified by the local policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark S. Moriconi
  • Certificate lookup and validation
    Patent number: 7664948
    Abstract: A certificate validation framework allows for the use of plug-ins for a certificate path builder and certificate path validator. Clients can include a web server clients, SSL certificate validation or application code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas O. Moreau
  • Systems and methods for mobile communication
    Patent number: 7665094
    Abstract: A mobile communication system uses a runtime environment program which can communicate with a server. Applications are used with their own corresponding application data store. The application data store is persistent even when the applications are not running. The runtime environment program can obtain data from the server to update the application data store. The application can use the application data store. Messages can be cached at the mobile device and the server to allow for possible downtimes in the communication in the mobile unit and the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Blair Frender, Michael James McCormick, Krishnan Sastry
  • System and method for using a classloader hierarchy to load software applications
    Patent number: 7665080
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing individual software modules to be reloaded in memory without forcing other modules to be reloaded at the same time. Such reloadable modules address the problem of not being able to reload a module without reloading all classes in the application. In accordance with one embodiment the root classloader and webapp classloader are reorganized, and the individual modules placed in their own classloader. This allows the developer to define their classloader organization according to their needs. The system can then reload modules or classes without affecting the rest of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Spotwood
  • Reporting queue delays in SOAP messages
    Patent number: 7664867
    Abstract: A delay indication can be added to SOAP messages by a queue so that receiving web services get a better understanding of the SOAP message freshness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold W. Lockhart, Jr.
  • Messaging component configuration and deployment in an archived form
    Patent number: 7661108
    Abstract: Embodiments provide mechanisms and methods for configuring a messaging component of an application. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to configure message objects, i.e., software objects relating to messaging, with the messages. The ability of embodiments to configure message objects with messages can enable application developers, for example, to package custom code, for example, as message objects combined with messages and/or parameters into an archive convenient for distributing to one or more servers, clients or other computational entities. The distributed archive can be readily accessed by these computational entities, enabling embodiments to achieve improved configuration of the messaging component of a distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kathiravan Sengodan
  • Efficiently storing indented threads in a threaded discussion application
    Patent number: 7660827
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for retrieving records in a hierarchical set of the records having a plurality of hierarchical levels and a plurality of hierarchical depths, each of the records having a tag that is unique within the hierarchical set of the records, comprises identifying one of the records in the hierarchical set of the records; modifying the tag, thereby producing a key; indexing the hierarchical set of the records only once, thereby selecting one or more of the records within the hierarchical set of the records, wherein indexing the hierarchical set of the records only once comprises applying the key to the hierarchical set of the records; and retrieving the selected records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Bea Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Frieden, Prasanna Srikhanta
  • Job scheduler
    Patent number: 7661015
    Abstract: A timer master can assign scheduled jobs to other application servers of a cluster. Leases for the timer master can be started in a lease table. The timer master can store job info for the scheduled jobs in a database. In case of a crash of the application server, another application server of the cluster can be assigned the time master and use the job information to assign scheduled jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Bea Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh Revanuru, Dean Bernard Jacobs, Prasad Peddada
  • System and method for performing batch configuration changes
    Patent number: 7660824
    Abstract: In embodiments, the present invention provides mechanisms and methods for making a plurality of configuration changes to a set of servers comprised of an administration server and one or more managed servers. These mechanisms and methods can enable a number of changes to be made to the configuration at once, i.e., in a batch. The ability of an administrator to make a number of changes to the configuration, validate the changes and then persist the changes to the servers is termed a “transaction based” change process. In such transaction based processing, embodiments process changes in batches, which enables embodiments to avoid failures in configuration changes that result in the machines being in a non-recoverable or unknown configuration state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric M. Halpern, Mark Spotswood, Charles Paclat
  • RFID edge server with socket multiplexing
    Patent number: 7660890
    Abstract: An RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) edge server associates with multiple RFID readers at a location. The RFID edge server includes an application server to run applications. The RFID edge server having TCP/IP socket connections with the multiple RFID readers. The RFID edge server having a fewer access threads for the RFID readers than there are socket connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Ashok Banerjee
  • Exactly once cache framework
    Patent number: 7660949
    Abstract: A system for managing objects in a clustered network includes a file system containing at least one copy of a data object. The system can include several clustered servers in communication with the file system. A distributed consensus algorithm is used to select a host server. The selected host server can contain a copy of the data object, such as in local cache, providing access to the local copy to any other server in the cluster. Any change made to an item hosted by the host server can also be updated in the file system. If the host server becomes unable to host the object, a new host can be chosen using the distributed consensus algorithm. The other servers are then notified of the new host by multicast messaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Bernard Jacobs, Eric M. Halpern
  • SIP server architecture fault tolerance and failover
    Patent number: 7661027
    Abstract: The SIP server can be comprised of an engine tier and a state tier distributed on a cluster network. Engine nodes in the engine tier can process SIP messages and can read/write state information from/to the state tier. State tier can maintain state information in a set of partitions of one or more replicas which contain duplicate information. The engine nodes can be adapted to detect and report replica failures and the replicas can in turn be adapted to detect and report engine node failures. Replicas can detect faults with an engine node if the engine node fails to poll the replica for a specified period of time and can then report the failure. The engine node can detect failures of a replica when reading or writing state information and can report the failure to another replica, which can be responsible for updating the partition view to exclude dead replicas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anno R. Langen, Reto Kramer, David Connelly, Rao Nasir Khan, John Beatty, Ioannis Cosmadopoulos, Manoj Cheenath
  • System and method for application server with self-tuned threading model
    Patent number: 7657892
    Abstract: A system and method for application server with self-tuned threading model. A server queue is used as a priority scheme, including a number of entries therein associated with received requests, and which allows the entries to have expressed priorities or share values, instead of simply the number of threads. Flexibility is retained to express the threads in raw numbers whenever this might be desired, or to express constraints on the number of threads to be made available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anno Langen, Naresh Revanuru
  • Method for role and resource policy management optimization
    Patent number: 7653930
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for authorization to adaptively control access to a resource in a resource hierarchy. At least one role for a principal is retrieved from the resource hierarchy or a first cache based on whether the at east one role was previously retrieved from the resource hierarchy. A policy is retrieved from the resource hierarchy or a second cache based on whether the policy was previously retrieved from the resource hierarchy. The policy is evaluated based on the at least one role and a determination on whether to grant the principal access to the resource is made based on the evaluation of the policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip B. Griffin, Manish Devgan, Alex Toussaint, Rod McCauley
  • Dynamically configurable service oriented architecture
    Patent number: 7653008
    Abstract: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture, including in one embodiment, a method for configuring a service proxy, comprising configuring a transformation between a reception protocol and a transmission protocol, configuring a potential message processing path capable of processing a message that has been received with the reception protocol, providing the message for transmission to the transmission protocol, wherein the potential message processing path includes a message processing node capable of processing the message, and wherein the message processing node implements an interface and/or a protocol that is compatible with the service proxy. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul B. Patrick, Ashok Aletty, Jayaram Kasi, Chet Kapoor, Tolga Urhan, Matthew Mihic
  • Systems and methods for streaming XPath query
    Patent number: 7653636
    Abstract: An improved XML query system represents an XML document as a stream of discrete ‘events,’ with each event representing a portion of the document as the document is being parsed. Expression-based event matching such as XPath can be performed against the event stream using a stack to keep only the relevant contexts in memory. Observers can be used to listen for matching events. Matching events can then be routed for processing by appropriate objects or components and returned to the event stream if necessary. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: BEA Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Calahan