Patents by Inventor Christopher Walter Anderson

Christopher Walter Anderson 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: 10795662
    Abstract: System and methods are described for distributing artifacts in a cloud computing environment. Processing includes receiving an artifact at an upstream computing system in a network of computing systems, the artifact including a file of a continuous integration (CI) process, dividing the artifact into chunks, storing the chunks into a shared storage of the upstream computing system accessible by downstream computing systems of the network, determining downstream computing systems in the network to receive the artifact, receiving a request from one of the downstream computing systems for a chunk of the artifact; and providing the chunk to the downstream computing system from the shared storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Harshawardhan Shamsundar Gadgil, Brian Whitten, Christopher Walter Anderson
  • Publication number: 20200257514
    Abstract: System and methods are described for distributing artifacts in a cloud computing environment. Processing includes receiving an artifact at an upstream computing system in a network of computing systems, the artifact including a file of a continuous integration (CI) process, dividing the artifact into chunks, storing the chunks into a shared storage of the upstream computing system accessible by downstream computing systems of the network, determining downstream computing systems in the network to receive the artifact, receiving a request from one of the downstream computing systems for a chunk of the artifact; and providing the chunk to the downstream computing system from the shared storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Harshawardhan Shamsundar GADGIL, Brian WHITTEN, Christopher Walter ANDERSON
  • Patent number: 8447736
    Abstract: Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars include a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stelios Paparizos, Christopher Walter Anderson, Wei Liu, Ajay Nair, Alexandros Ntoulas, Naga Srinivas Vemuri
  • Publication number: 20110313993
    Abstract: Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars include a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: STELIOS PAPARIZOS, CHRISTOPHER WALTER ANDERSON, WEI LIU, AJAY NAIR, ALEXANDROS NTOULAS, NAGA SRINIVAS VEMURI
  • Patent number: 8027957
    Abstract: Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars includes a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stelios Paparizos, Christopher Walter Anderson, Wei Liu, Ajay Nair, Alexandros Ntoulas, Naga Srinivas Vemuri
  • Patent number: 7987189
    Abstract: A full text indexing system is provided for processing content associated with data applications such as encyclopedia and dictionary applications. A build process collects data from various sources, processes the data into constituent parts, including alternative word sets, and stores the constituent parts in structured database tables. A run-time process is used to query the database tables and the results in order to provide effective matches in an efficient manner. Run-time processing is optimized by preprocessing all steps that are query-independent during the build process. A double word table representing all possible word pair combinations for each index entry and an alternative word table are used to further optimize runtime processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Walter Anderson, Harish Jayanti
  • Patent number: 7970768
    Abstract: A full text indexing system is provided for processing content associated with data applications such as encyclopedia and dictionary applications. A build process collects data from various sources, processes the data into constituent parts, including alternative word sets, and stores the constituent parts in structured database tables. A run-time process is used to query the database tables and the results in order to provide effective matches in an efficient manner. Run-time processing is optimized by preprocessing all steps that are query-independent during the build process. A double word table representing all possible word pair combinations for each index entry and an alternative word table are used to further optimize runtime processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Walter Anderson, Harish Jayanti
  • Publication number: 20090327269
    Abstract: Generation of patterns used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. A pattern includes a sequence of token classes and new token classes. A sample query is parsed to identify tokens within the sample query that match a token associated with a referenced set of token classes. New token classes are generated for unidentified tokens within the sample query. A pattern is generated by substituting the identified tokens of the sample query with corresponding token classes and substituting the unidentified tokens of the sample query with corresponding new token classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: STELIOS PAPARIZOS, CHRISTOPHER WALTER ANDERSON, WEI LIU, AJAY NAIR, NAGA SRINIVAS VEMURI
  • Publication number: 20090327256
    Abstract: Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars includes a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: STELIOS PAPARIZOS, CHRISTOPHER WALTER ANDERSON, WEI LIU, AJAY NAIR, ALEXANDROS NTOULAS, NAGA SRINIVAS VEMURI
  • Patent number: 7266553
    Abstract: A full text indexing system is provided for processing content associated with data applications such as encyclopedia and dictionary applications. A build process collects data from various sources, processes the data into constituent parts, including alternative word sets, and stores the constituent parts in structured database tables. A run-time process is used to query the database tables and the results in order to provide effective matches in an efficient manner. Run-time processing is optimized by preprocessing all steps that are query-independent during the build process. A double word table representing all possible word pair combinations for each index entry and an alternative word table are used to further optimize run-time processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Walter Anderson, Harish Jayanti