Patents by Inventor BERT CASPER

BERT CASPER 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).

  • Publication number: 20230246904
    Abstract: A computer system is configured to perform a reconciliation process with respect to a current state of a cloud service and a goal state of the cloud service. Performing the reconciliation process includes obtaining the current state of the cloud service, obtaining the goal state of the cloud service, evaluating the current state against the goal state to generate a reconciliation plan that comprises a plurality of operations, and starting execution of the reconciliation plan at the cloud service including performing at least one of the plurality of operations in the reconciliation plan. In response to detecting an event, the computer system reperforms the reconciliation process again such that one or more current state, the goal state, or the reconciliation plan changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Volodymyr IVANOV, Bert CASPER
  • Patent number: 11706082
    Abstract: A computer system is configured to perform a reconciliation process with respect to a current state of a cloud service and a goal state of the cloud service. Performing the reconciliation process includes obtaining the current state of the cloud service, obtaining the goal state of the cloud service, evaluating the current state against the goal state to generate a reconciliation plan that comprises a plurality of operations, and starting execution of the reconciliation plan at the cloud service including performing at least one of the plurality of operations in the reconciliation plan. In response to detecting an event, the computer system reperforms the reconciliation process again such that one or more current state, the goal state, or the reconciliation plan changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Volodymyr Ivanov, Bert Casper
  • Patent number: 8478779
    Abstract: A query may be ambiguous when the domain-confidence factors indicate a high likelihood that the search query may belong to two or more domains. A domain is a subject matter category such as shopping, sports, entertainment, music, or politics. A domain-confidence factor indicates the likelihood that a search query is related to a particular domain. Upon determining that a search query is ambiguous, embodiments of the present invention may present an interface that allows the user to place the search query into one or more domains. Updated search results, or other objects, may be returned based on the selection of a domain by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Bert Casper, Robert David Berg
  • Publication number: 20110238686
    Abstract: A potential user query that can be subsequently received from a user is identified. An interface exposed by a data service is invoked, which includes providing the potential user query to the interface. Search results in response to the potential user query are received from the interface and maintained in a complex data set store. If a user query is subsequently received that maps to a normalized query that is the potential user query, then search results for the normalized query are obtained from the complex data set store and returned as the search results for the user query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Frank Bergstraesser, Tai-Yi Huang, Bo-June Hsu, Bert Casper
  • Publication number: 20100299336
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for disambiguating a search query are provided. A query may be ambiguous when the domain-confidence factors indicate a high likelihood that the search query may belong to two or more domains. A domain is a subject matter category such as shopping, sports, entertainment, music, or politics. A domain-confidence factor indicates the likelihood that a search query is related to a particular domain. Upon determining that a search query is ambiguous, embodiments of the present invention may present an interface that allows the user to place the search query into one or more domains. Updated search results, or other objects, may be returned based on the selection of a domain by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS F. BERGSTRAESSER, BERT CASPER, ROBERT DAVID BERG