Patents by Inventor Andrew J. Pardoe
Andrew J. Pardoe 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: 10346199Abstract: An exception handling system is described herein that provides one or more distinguished classes of software exceptions that are handled differently than other exceptions. The system treats a distinguished exception as a “hard to catch” exception that is not passed to the catch block of program code unless a developer performs extra steps to acknowledge the distinguished nature of the exception and confirm that the program code is prepared to properly handle the exception. Exceptions that fall into this class are typically those that represent conditions from which normal exception handling practices cannot successfully recover, namely exceptions that corrupt application state. Accordingly, the system prevents the developer from catching these classes of exceptions by default unless the developer explicitly requests to have these exceptions delivered to the program code. Thus, the exception handling system encourages correct programming practices by preventing developer error by default.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew J. Pardoe, Michael M. Magruder, Kumar Gaurav Khanna, Diana Milirud, Gaye Oncul Kok
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Patent number: 8782607Abstract: An error handling system is described herein that provides a facility for controlling the behavior of software when the software violates a contract condition. The system provides configurable runtime behavior that takes place when a contract fails. The error handling system provides an event that a hosting application or other software code can register to handle and that the system invokes upon detecting a contract failure. The application's response to the event determines how the system handles the failure. If the event is unhandled, the system triggers an escalation policy that allows an administrator or application to specify how the system handles contract failures. Thus, the error handling system provides increased control over the handling of contract failures within software code.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Melitta L. G. Andersen, Michael Barnett, Manuel A. Fahndrich, Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Katherine E. King, Michael M. Magruder, Andrew J. Pardoe, Kumar Gaurav Khanna
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Publication number: 20130159122Abstract: Delivering applications to devices. A method includes receiving, at an AppStore, developer provided application code. The method further includes determining anticipated usage of an application based on the application code at end user devices. The method further includes using the determined anticipated usage, optimizing the developer provided application code at the AppStore to optimize for the anticipated usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Surupa Biswas, Patrick Dussud, Andrew J. Pardoe, Subramanian Ramaswamy
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Patent number: 8271938Abstract: Mechanisms that allow frameworks significant flexibility in varying the library of common base classes in a manner that better suits the domain of applications served by the framework. Instead of providing the base class library, the runtime provides a data contract for the data structure of each base class. The frameworks can then define each base class in a custom way so long as the data contract is honored. Thus, for example, the framework may provide custom framework-specific methods and/or properties as is appropriate for the framework. Another framework might define the base classes in a different way.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Patrick H. Dussud, Scott D. Mosier, Peter F. Sollich, Frank V. Peschel-Gallee, Raja Krishnaswamy, Simon J. Hall, Madhusudhan Talluri, Rudi Martin, Michael M. Magruder, Andrew J. Pardoe
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Patent number: 8074116Abstract: An exception notification system is described herein that provides an early notification that a software exception has occurred before exception handling code has run. The exception notification system receives a registration request from program code to register a handler to receive an early notification when an exception occurs. When an exception occurs, the system raises an event that calls each registered handler. After the handler returns, the system performs normal exception handling, so that the early notification does not change existing exception-handling behavior. The exception notification system allows a program to inspect and log an exception before the program state has been modified by exception handling. The program code can capture detailed information about the cause of the exception to enable further offline analysis. Thus, the exception notification system allows developers to improve their programs by receiving more information about unexpected conditions in the program code.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Pardoe, Gaurav Khanna, Michael M. Magruder, Yi Lin, Jeffrey C. Schwartz
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Publication number: 20100287414Abstract: An exception notification system is described herein that provides an early notification that a software exception has occurred before exception handling code has run. The exception notification system receives a registration request from program code to register a handler to receive an early notification when an exception occurs. When an exception occurs, the system raises an event that calls each registered handler. After the handler returns, the system performs normal exception handling, so that the early notification does not change existing exception-handling behavior. The exception notification system allows a program to inspect and log an exception before the program state has been modified by exception handling. The program code can capture detailed information about the cause of the exception to enable further offline analysis. Thus, the exception notification system allows developers to improve their programs by receiving more information about unexpected conditions in the program code.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Pardoe, Gaurav Khanna, Michael M. Magruder, Yi Lin, Jeffrey C. Schwartz
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Publication number: 20100262814Abstract: An exception handling system is described herein that provides one or more distinguished classes of software exceptions that are handled differently than other exceptions. The system treats a distinguished exception as a “hard to catch” exception that is not passed to the catch block of program code unless a developer performs extra steps to acknowledge the distinguished nature of the exception and confirm that the program code is prepared to properly handle the exception. Exceptions that fall into this class are typically those that represent conditions from which normal exception handling practices cannot successfully recover, namely exceptions that corrupt application state. Accordingly, the system prevents the developer from catching these classes of exceptions by default unless the developer explicitly requests to have these exceptions delivered to the program code. Thus, the exception handling system encourages correct programming practices by preventing developer error by default.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Pardoe, Michael M. Magruder, Kumar Gaurav Khanna, Diana Milirud, Gaye Oncul Kok
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Publication number: 20100218169Abstract: An error handling system is described herein that provides a facility for controlling the behavior of software when the software violates a contract condition. The system provides configurable runtime behavior that takes place when a contract fails. The error handling system provides an event that a hosting application or other software code can register to handle and that the system invokes upon detecting a contract failure. The application's response to the event determines how the system handles the failure. If the event is unhandled, the system triggers an escalation policy that allows an administrator or application to specify how the system handles contract failures. Thus, the error handling system provides increased control over the handling of contract failures within software code.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Melitta L. G. Andersen, Michael Barnett, Manuel A. Fahndrich, Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Katherine E. King, Michael M. Magruder, Andrew J. Pardoe, Kumar Gaurav Khanna