Patents by Inventor Edmund A. Brackett

Edmund A. Brackett 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).

  • State Machine Based Package Installation
    Publication number: 20130067447
    Abstract: A single instance store including files for multiple packages is maintained in a computing device, each of the multiple packages including one or more components or modules for one or more applications. For each of the multiple packages, a record of a state for the package is maintained, and one or more of the multiple packages can have different ones of multiple states for different users. Based at least in part on a state machine and the state for one of the multiple packages, the one of the multiple packages is transitioned to a different state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hemchander Venkateshwara Sannidhanam, John M. Sheehan, Zainab Hakim, Edmund A. Brackett, Andres Carlo Petralli, Ashish Awasthi