Patents by Inventor Apurva A. Sinha

Apurva A. Sinha 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).

  • COM object and managed code object interoperability
    Patent number: 8201185
    Abstract: Communicating between managed add-ins and COM hosts. A computing environment includes host objects which may be one of a COM object or a managed code object. The computing environment further includes add-in objects implemented in managed code. Add-in object can provide additional functionality to the host objects. A method includes acts for communicating between add-in objects and host objects. The method includes determining that a first host object to be communicated with is a COM object of a COM host. As a result of determining that a host object to be communicated with is a COM object, incoming and outgoing communications from a managed code add-in are routed through an interop proxy. The interop proxy is implemented in managed code with a managed code add-in. The interop proxy is configured to translate managed code invocations to COM code invocation, and to translate COM code invocations to managed code invocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Quinn, Jr., Igor Zinkovsky, Apurva A. Sinha
  • COM OBJECT AND MANAGED CODE OBJECT INTEROPERABILITY
    Publication number: 20090328064
    Abstract: Communicating between managed add-ins and COM hosts. A computing environment includes host objects which may be one of a COM object or a managed code object. The computing environment further includes add-in objects implemented in managed code. Add-in object can provide additional functionality to the host objects. A method includes acts for communicating between add-in objects and host objects. The method includes determining that a first host object to be communicated with is a COM object of a COM host. As a result of determining that a host object to be communicated with is a COM object, incoming and outgoing communications from a managed code add-in are routed through an interop proxy. The interop proxy is implemented in managed code with a managed code add-in. The interop proxy is configured to translate managed code invocations to COM code invocation, and to translate COM code invocations to managed code invocations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Quinn, JR., Igor Zinkovsky, Apurva A. Sinha