Patents by Inventor Andrew Precious

Andrew Precious 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: 9535818
    Abstract: Test cases are executed by the software engineering test system. The test cases target software products. Test outputs are generated indicating whether the software engineering test system determined the test cases to have passed or failed. Separately, bug records are stored in a first dataset whose records identify corresponding bugs. Records of the test case executions are stored in a second dataset. Records thereof indicate whether a corresponding test case failed when executed. Such records may have bug identifiers entered by a test engineer and corresponding to bugs identified by the test engineer. The first dataset is parsed to identify records of test runs that have failed, and for each such test run record a bug identifier thereof is identified. Statistics such as failure counts are updated for the bugs found in the test run records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Janani Vasudevan, Andrew Precious, Firoz Dalal, Herman Widjaja, Jarred Bonaparte, Todd Frost, Ryan Segeberg, Rajkumar Mohanram
  • Publication number: 20140157036
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a test case run analyzer may filter out failure events with known causes from a test report. The test case run analyzer may receive a test report of a test case run of an application process. The test case run analyzer may automatically identify a failure event in the test case run. The test case run analyzer may automatically compare the failure event to a failure pattern set. The test case run analyzer may filter the test report based on the failure pattern set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Walton, Herman Widjaja, Anish Swaminathan, Andrew Precious, Edwin Bruce Shankle, III, Andrew Campbell, Sean Edmison, Jacob Beaudoin
  • Publication number: 20140109053
    Abstract: Test cases are executed by the software engineering test system. The test cases target software products. Test outputs are generated indicating whether the software engineering test system determined the test cases to have passed or failed. Separately, bug records are stored in a first dataset whose records identify corresponding bugs. Records of the test case executions are stored in a second dataset. Records thereof indicate whether a corresponding test case failed when executed. Such records may have bug identifiers entered by a test engineer and corresponding to bugs identified by the test engineer. The first dataset is parsed to identify records of test runs that have failed, and for each such test run record a bug identifier thereof is identified. Statistics such as failure counts are updated for the bugs found in the test run records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT
    Inventors: Janani Vasudevan, Andrew Precious, Firoz Dalal, Herman Widjaja, Jarred Bonaparte, Todd Frost, Ryan Segeberg, Rajkumar Mohanram
  • Patent number: 8659589
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for displaying two-dimensional objects on a display device are disclosed. Rendering requests are received from an application to render two-dimensionally modeled graphics to a display device. Primitive geometries of drawing calls of the rendering requests are tessellated into sequences of triangles. The vertices of the triangles are mapped to a vertex buffer along with an index to identify associated constant data. Batching operations store and communicate calls and mapped data to a graphics processing unit by way of a three-dimensional rendering application program interface. Constant data associated with the mapped data are indexed and appended together in a constant buffer, thereby allowing drawing calls to be coalesced. A staging buffer and a staging texture are provided for batching text anti-aliasing operations. Shader fragments are precompiled and organized by way of a predetermined lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Lawrence, Alexander Stevenson, Thomas Olsen, Ben Constable, Chris Raubacher, Miles Cohen, Bilgem Cakir, Robert Brown, Brett Bloomquist, Chris Kam Ming Chui, Samrach Tun, Jason Hartman, Kanwal Vedbrat, Andrew Precious, Thomas Mulcahy
  • Patent number: 8325177
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for displaying two-dimensional objects on a display device are disclosed. Rendering requests are received from an application to render two-dimensionally modeled graphics to a display device. Primitive geometries of drawing calls of the rendering requests are tessellated into sequences of triangles. The vertices of the triangles are mapped to a vertex buffer along with an index to identify associated constant data. Batching operations store and communicate calls and mapped data to a graphics processing unit by way of a three-dimensional rendering application program interface. Constant data associated with the mapped data are indexed and appended together in a constant buffer, thereby allowing drawing calls to be coalesced. A staging buffer and a staging texture are provided for batching text anti-aliasing operations. Shader fragments are precompiled and organized by way of a predetermined lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Lawrence, Alexander Stevenson, Jason Hartman, Brett Bloomquist, Robert Brown, Chris Kam Ming Chui, Samrach Tun, Anthony Hodsdon, Thomas Olsen, Miles Cohen, Ben Constable, Bilgem Cakir, Chris Raubacher, Gerhard Schneider, Andrew Precious, Thomas Mulcahy, Kanwal Vedbrat
  • Publication number: 20100164983
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for displaying two-dimensional objects on a display device are disclosed. Rendering requests are received from an application to render two-dimensionally modeled graphics to a display device. Primitive geometries of drawing calls of the rendering requests are tessellated into sequences of triangles. The vertices of the triangles are mapped to a vertex buffer along with an index to identify associated constant data. Batching operations store and communicate calls and mapped data to a graphics processing unit by way of a three-dimensional rendering application program interface. Constant data associated with the mapped data are indexed and appended together in a constant buffer, thereby allowing drawing calls to be coalesced. A staging buffer and a staging texture are provided for batching text anti-aliasing operations. Shader fragments are precompiled and organized by way of a predetermined lookup table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: MARK LAWRENCE, ALEXANDER STEVENSON, THOMAS OLSEN, BEN CONSTABLE, ANTHONY HODSDON, CHRIS RAUBACHER, MILES COHEN, BILGEM CAKIR, ROBERT BROWN, BRETT BLOOMQUIST, CHRIS KAM MING CHUI, SAMRACH TUN, JASON HARTMAN, GERHARD SCHNELDER, KANWAL VEDBRAT, ANDREW PRECIOUS, TOM MULCAHY