Patents by Inventor Donald F. Box
Donald F. Box 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).
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Patent number: 10750349Abstract: Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram, Donald F. Box, Martin J. Gudgin, Zhangwei Xu, Todd R. Manion, Grant Gardner, Jeremy L. Dewey, Shiraz J. Cupala, Curt A. Steeb
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Publication number: 20180234831Abstract: Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram, Donald F. Box, Martin J. Gudgin, Zhangwei Xu, Todd R. Manion, Grant Gardner, Jeremy L. Dewey, Shiraz J. Cupala, Curt A. Steeb
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Patent number: 9967730Abstract: Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram, Donald F. Box, Martin J. Gudgin, Zhangwei Xu, Todd R. Manion, Grant Gardner, Jeremy L. Dewey, Shiraz J. Cupala, Curt A. Steeb
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Patent number: 9916136Abstract: Interfaces for a continuation-based runtime. Some embodiments described herein are directed to a framework using continuation based runtime interface that pertain to an infrastructure for enabling the creation of a wide variety of continuation-based programs that perform a wide-array of tasks. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building continuation-based, declarative applications of various scale and complexity.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kenneth D. Wolf, Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Robert Brian Schmidt, Donald F. Box, Geoffrey M. Kizer, Nathan C. Talbert, Kavita Kamani, Alberto Arias Maestro, David Robert Cliffe, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, HongMei Ge, Stephen Jared Maine, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt
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Publication number: 20170164180Abstract: Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram, Donald F. Box, Martin J. Gudgin, Zhangwei Xu, Todd R. Manion, Grant Gardner, Jeremy L. Dewey, Shiraz J. Cupala, Curt A. Steeb
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Patent number: 9579570Abstract: Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram, Donald F. Box, Martin J. Gudgin, Zhangwei Xu, Todd R. Manion, Grant Gardner, Jeremy L. Dewey, Shiraz J. Cupala, Curt A. Steeb
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Publication number: 20160274869Abstract: Interfaces for a continuation-based runtime. Some embodiments described herein are directed to a framework using continuation based runtime interface that pertain to an infrastructure for enabling the creation of a wide variety of continuation-based programs that perform a wide-array of tasks. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building continuation-based, declarative applications of various scale and complexity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Kenneth D. Wolf, Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Robert Brian Schmidt, Donald F. Box, Geoffrey M. Kizer, Nathan C. Talbert, Kavita Kamani, Alberto Arias Maestro, David Robert Cliffe, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, HongMei Ge, Stephen Jared Maine, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt
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Patent number: 9354847Abstract: Namespace for continuation-based runtime. Some embodiments described herein are directed to a framework using continuation based runtime namespaces that pertain to an infrastructure for enabling the creation of a wide variety of continuation-based programs that perform a wide-array of tasks. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building continuation-based, declarative applications of various scale and complexity. In some embodiments, the associated application programming interfaces (APIs) are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility, and versionability.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kenneth D. Wolf, Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Robert Brian Schmidt, Donald F. Box, Geoffrey M. Kizer, Nathan C. Talbert, Kavita Kamani, Alberto Arias Maestro, David Robert Cliffe, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, HongMei Ge, Stephen Jared Maine, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt
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Patent number: 9229696Abstract: A common intermediate representation for a data scripting language is provided for efficient representation and direct specification of programming constructs in memory. The common intermediate representation of data scripts allows data intensive applications to be created and analyzed in a machine accessible format, and the elements of the common intermediate representation can be stored independent of underlying storage specifics. Stored elements of the common intermediate representation of code are thus available for fast loading in memory when desired by other applications and programs by mapping the stored elements to the in memory intermediate representation.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Donald F. Box, Bradford H. Lovering, John D. Doty, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, John L. Hamby, David E. Langworthy
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Patent number: 9201874Abstract: A nominal type framework can be configured to efficiently correlate different nominal types together based on a minimum set of common type shapes or structures. In one implementation, a developer identifies a number of different nominal types of interest (source types), and identifies the minimum set of common type shapes to be accessed by an application program. The minimum set of common type shapes can then be used to create an intermediate type (target type) to which each of the other different source types can be mapped. For example, one or more proxies can be created that map shapes of the one or more source types to corresponding shapes of the created target type. The application program created by the developer, in turn, can access, operate on, or otherwise use the mapped data of each different source type through a single target type.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Clemens A. Szyperski, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Joshua R. Williams, Christopher L. Anderson, Donald F. Box, Jeffrey S. Pinkston, Martin J. Gudgin
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Patent number: 9043765Abstract: A single software project in an integrated development environment (IDE) may be built for multiple target environments in a single build episode. Multiple different output artifacts may be generated by the build process for each of the target environments. The output artifacts are then deployed to the target environments, which may be homogeneous or heterogeneous environments. The same source project may be used to generate multiple output artifacts for the same target environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Haroon Ahmed, Sadik Gokhan Caglar, Fabian O. Winternitz, Donald F. Box
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Publication number: 20150143334Abstract: A rendezvous abstraction that is used to correlate messages within message exchange. The rendezvous abstraction may be instantiated to correlate messages regardless of the type of message exchange pattern, and regardless of the underlying protocols used to communication message. Messages exchanges of primitive protocols are modeled as unilateral message exchanges. The rendezvous abstraction is used to correlate messages of the unilateral message exchange, and serves as an abstraction that is used to represented the rendezvous point where the message of the message exchange pattern are handled. Accordingly, instead of focusing on the protocol-specific mechanisms for correlation, if even available, the application author may simply work with a standard rendezvous abstraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Kenneth D. Wolf, Nicholas A. Allen, Stefan Batres, Justin David Brown, Donald F. Box
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Patent number: 8949784Abstract: An efficient, logical and expressive type system is provided for flexibly defining types of a declarative programming language so that efficient and structurally compact data intensive applications can be generated. The type system supports the combination of refinement types and type membership expressions, as well as a top type that encompasses all valid values as members. With the type system, types can be expressed as intersections and/or unions of other types. Thus, types can be efficiently represented for a full range of types of data as may be found in real world data stores.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David E. Langworthy, Gavin Bierman, Andrew D. Gordon, Donald F. Box, Bradford H. Lovering, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, John D. Doty
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Patent number: 8886659Abstract: Data is accessed and updated in a data store at a field granularity. A user query specifies one or more non-unique fields of a record. The query is sent to a data store to retrieve the fields of the record at a field granularity, in satisfaction of the query. The fields of the record can also be modified by transmitting a record ID along with original content, while omitting some of the record data, and by also including the modification to be made.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Haroon Ahmed, John David Doty, Donald F. Box, Randy S. Kimmerly
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Patent number: 8762942Abstract: An efficient, logical and expressive type system supports the combination of refinement types and type membership expressions, as well as a top type that encompasses all valid values as members. A bidirectional type checking algorithm is provided for the type system including synthesis and checking steps to statically verify types of code based on the type system.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David E. Langworthy, Gavin Bierman, Andrew D. Gordon, Donald F. Box, Bradford H. Lovering, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, John D. Doty
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Patent number: 8756257Abstract: A common data type structure can be used to correlate access requests between applications that implement data in accordance with different types or type structures. In one implementation, a common data structure includes schemes for operations, sequences, records, and atoms (i.e., undefined). The system can then map any type structure to the schemes of the common data structure. In operation, a request for data by an application can involve identifying one or more proxies used by an application to map the data to the common data structure. The proxies map the data to the common data structure based on the shape of the data (to the extent it can be identified). The proxies then can return one or more data structures that comprise the identified mapping information. The application can then perform operations directly on the received data structures.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Clemens A. Szyperski, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Joshua R. Williams, Christopher L. Anderson, Donald F. Box, Jeffrey S. Pinkston, Martin J. Gudgin
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Patent number: 8751626Abstract: Embodiments provide an architecture to enable composite, autonomous composite applications and services to be built and deployed. In addition, an infrastructure is provided to enable communication between and amongst distributed applications and services. In one or more embodiments, an example architecture includes or otherwise leverages five logical modules including connectivity services, process services, identity services, lifecycle services and tools.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey S Pinkston, Bradford H. Lovering, Donald F. Box, Stevan Swartz, Destry W. Hood
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Patent number: 8732146Abstract: A database integration viewer that allows additional properties to be associated with a record as viewed in a single record or table, even though those additional properties are not owned by the record in the underlying source record or table in the database. Using this integration view, a viewed version of record or table may be different than the actual structure of the source record or table. In the viewed version of the record or table, the viewed record or table or may include some or all of the properties for the records of the subject record or table, while incorporating one or more additional properties for the record into the viewed table. The properties may be scalars, or may be computed to populate the viewed version of the record or table.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Scott M. Roberts, Siddharth Jayadevan, Donald F. Box, Laurent Mollicone, James R. Flynn
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Patent number: 8626715Abstract: Facilitating generic database editing to allow for data to be received from a user for entry into a database without requiring the data to conform to schema constraints for the database. A method includes examining a first schema for a first database. The first schema including a first set of constraints specified in the first schema on data to be entered into the first database. The method further includes, based on the examination, constructing a second database corresponding to the first database. The second database is associated with a second schema with a second set of constraints. The second set of constraints is a relaxed version of the first set of constraints specified in the first schema.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: William A. Manis, Lonny Bastien, Antony Scott Williams, Anthony Christopher Bloesch, Gunter Leeb, Haroon Ahmed, Randy S. Kimmerly, Arye Gittelman, Donald F. Box
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Publication number: 20130318247Abstract: Device linking is described. In one or more implementations, data is maintained at a network service that describes characteristics of a plurality of devices that are associated with a user account of the network service. A communication is formed to be received by one of the plurality of devices that includes a portion of the data that pertains to another one of the plurality of devices and that is suitable by the receiving device to discover the other one of the plurality of devices to initiate a local network connection between the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram, Donald F. Box, Martin J. Gudgin, Zhangwei Xu, Todd R. Manion, Grant Gardner, Jeremy L. Dewey, Shiraz J. Cupala, Curt A. Steeb