Patents by Inventor Chad M. MacKenzie

Chad M. MacKenzie 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: 9436444
    Abstract: A method and system of marking the deprecation status of components, such as services, processes, operations, and data types that may be used in a computing application, and displaying this status to developers within the computing application is provided. Components may be marked as deprecated, or they may include information reflecting a sunset policy, which consists of either a specific date or an upcoming version number of the application or programming language the computing application supports. The sunset policy determines when a component has reached its end of life and is either no longer supported or will be removed from the underlying product. Using this deprecation status information, the computing application may be configured to dynamically notify developers of when components will be deprecated. The computing application may further be configured to provide automated migration support by recommending alternative components and assisting in their configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jason Hightower, Chad M. MacKenzie
  • Publication number: 20140033165
    Abstract: A method and system of marking the deprecation status of components, such as services, processes, operations, and data types that may be used in a computing application, and displaying this status to developers within the computing application is provided. Components may be marked as deprecated, or they may include information reflecting a sunset policy, which consists of either a specific date or an upcoming version number of the application or programming language the computing application supports. The sunset policy determines when a component has reached its end of life and is either no longer supported or will be removed from the underlying product. Using this deprecation status information, the computing application may be configured to dynamically notify developers of when components will be deprecated. The computing application may further be configured to provide automated migration support by recommending alternative components and assisting in their configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Hightower, Chad M. MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 8538980
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system perform accessing of electronic forms using a metadata registry. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a request for an electronic form from a user. The method also includes accessing metadata for the electronic form from a metadata registry. The method includes accessing the electronic form based on the metadata for the electronic form from a content repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Chad M. MacKenzie