Patents by Inventor Affan Dar

Affan Dar 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: 10476751
    Abstract: In one example of the technology, a mapping is established between: IoT devices that are tenants of an IoT support service, and tenants of a first third-party cloud service. On the IoT support service, device twins are stored, such that each device twin corresponds to a corresponding IoT device, and such that each device twins includes at least a first section that includes properties of the corresponding IoT device, and a second section that includes properties associated with the first third-party cloud service. The IoT support service is used to invoke a first method associated with at least one IoT device based on metadata in at least one corresponding device twin. The first method is associated with the first third-party cloud service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Konstantin Dotchkoff, Ian Vaughan Hollier, Affan Dar, Ritesh Rao
  • Patent number: 10425242
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to device provisioning in an IoT environment. For example, such technology is usable in provisioning IoT devices to an IoT Hub. In one example of the technology, an identification message that includes information associated with identification of a first IoT device is received. The validity of the first IoT device is then verified. After the first IoT device is verified, based at least in part on the identification message, an IoT hub is selected from a plurality of IoT hubs. The first IoT device is then caused to be registered with the selected IoT hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Berdy, Konstantin Dotchkoff, Arjmand Samuel, Affan Dar
  • Publication number: 20190124507
    Abstract: In one example of the technology, a first third-party service is registered with the IoT support service. A first IoT device of a plurality of IoT devices is caused to be provisioned with the IoT support service. An authentication token is received for the first IoT device. The authentication token is based on an authentication of the first IoT device with the first third-party service. The authentication token is verified. The first IoT device is authenticated with the IoT support service based on the verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Konstantin DOTCHKOFF, Affan DAR
  • Publication number: 20190123967
    Abstract: In one example of the technology, a mapping is established between: IoT devices that are tenants of an IoT support service, and tenants of a first third-party cloud service. On the IoT support service, device twins are stored, such that each device twin corresponds to a corresponding IoT device, and such that each device twins includes at least a first section that includes properties of the corresponding IoT device, and a second section that includes properties associated with the first third-party cloud service. The IoT support service is used to invoke a first method associated with at least one IoT device based on metadata in at least one corresponding device twin. The first method is associated with the first third-party cloud service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Konstantin DOTCHKOFF, Ian Vaughan HOLLIER, Affan DAR, Ritesh RAO
  • Publication number: 20180332117
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, a plurality of module twins that respectively correspond to a plurality of modules of edge applications on a plurality of edge devices are stored. The plurality of module twins individually include metadata associated with the corresponding module of the plurality of modules. At least one further module to be deployed is determined. Edge devices of the plurality of edge devices to receive the determined at least one module are identified. The determined at least one further module is caused to be deployed to the identified edge devices. In response to deploying the determined at least one further module, the plurality of module twins is updated by adding, to the plurality of modules twins, modules twins corresponding to the deployed modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Chipalo STREET, Elio DAMAGGIO, Juan PEREZ, Affan DAR, Michael R. YAGLEY, Samuel John GEORGE, Cameron William SKINNER
  • Publication number: 20180329763
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, a plurality of module twins that respectively correspond to a plurality of modules of edge applications on a plurality of edge devices are stored. The plurality of module twins individually include metadata associated with the corresponding module of the plurality of modules. At least one module of the plurality of modules to be modified by adding a declarative rule is determined, such that the declarative rule causes determining whether an event has been triggered based on a particular event having been determined to have occurred, and, in response to the triggering of the event, communicating the triggering of the event to at least one declarative target. The determined at least one module of the plurality of modules is caused to be modified by adding the declarative rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel John GEORGE, Cameron William SKINNER, Elio DAMAGGIO, Affan DAR, Michael R. YAGLEY, Varun PURANIK, Anca Mihaela ANTOCHI
  • Publication number: 20180329968
    Abstract: A plurality of module twins that respectively correspond to modules of a plurality of modules of an edge application are stored on an edge device, and the modules comprise the edge application. The modules of the plurality of modules are capable of being used interoperably with other modules without altering the other modules. The plurality of module twins individually include metadata associated with the corresponding module of the plurality of modules. Communications are enabled between the modules of the plurality of modules and the IoT support service according to a common security context, and the metadata of each module twin of the plurality of module twins is synchronized based on the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Elio DAMAGGIO, Affan DAR, Ajith Kumar GANDE, Juan PEREZ, Samuel John GEORGE, Cameron William SKINNER
  • Publication number: 20180331901
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, module twins that respectively correspond to modules of edge applications on a plurality of edge devices are stored. The module twins individually include metadata associated with the corresponding module. Communications between the modules and the IoT support service according to a common security context is enabled. At least one module to be modified is determined. The determined at least one module is caused to be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel John GEORGE, Cameron William SKINNER, Elio DAMAGGIO, Affan DAR, Ajith Kumar GANDE, Sudeep Satish PRADHAN, Varun PURANIK
  • Publication number: 20180302476
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, device twins for corresponding IoT devices are stored, wherein the device twins include metadata that is associated with the corresponding IoT devices. A schedule job instruction may be received, and at least one candidate IoT device among the IoT devices that is associated with the schedule job instruction may be identified. In some examples, executors associated with the at least one candidate IoT device are created, and jobs are executed via the executors such that the executors are capable of resuming execution after at least one of an outage or a failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Juan Perez, Affan Dar, Simon Porter
  • Publication number: 20180109395
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to device provisioning in an IoT environment. For example, such technology is usable in provisioning IoT devices to an IoT Hub. In one example of the technology, an identification message that includes information associated with identification of a first IoT device is received. The validity of the first IoT device is then verified. After the first IoT device is verified, based at least in part on the identification message, an IoT hub is selected from a plurality of IoT hubs. The first IoT device is then caused to be registered with the selected IoT hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Nicole Berdy, Konstantin Dotchkoff, Arjmand Samuel, Affan Dar
  • Publication number: 20180109650
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to IoT communications. For example, such technology is usable in provisioning IoT devices in an automatic manner with no manual steps. In one example of the technology, upon initial boot, identification information is automatically sent to a provisioning service endpoint stored in the IoT device. The identification information includes an identification (ID) of the first IoT device. Cryptographic information is received from the provisioning service. The cryptographic information is associated with an IoT hub selected from a plurality of IoT hubs based, in part, on the ID of the first IoT device. A message is automatically sent to the IoT hub in response to receiving the cryptographic information. A new configuration file and a firmware update are received from the IoT hub without requiring a user association. The new configuration file and the firmware update are automatically installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Nicole Berdy, Konstantin Dotchkoff, Arjmand Samuel, Affan Dar
  • Publication number: 20050257086
    Abstract: Test result data can be classified across multiple tests, test scenarios, and lab runs. Test result files can be parsed by extracting information from them. Extracted information can be compared to failure information in a database. If a match is found, the extracted information can be linked to the failure, creating a history for each failure. New failures can be identified when no match is found. Failure data can be cross-referenced to further aid in results analysis. For each failure, lists of useful information can be accessed. Analysis information can be associated with failures, for example whether the failure is new, occurred previously, is for a different reason than expected, or has been added to a baseline of expected failures. A Graphic User Interface (“GUI”) is also provided to expose the analyzed results to the result analyzers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Triou, Andre Milbradt, Osarumwemse Agbonile, Affan Dar