Patents by Inventor Edmund Pinto

Edmund Pinto 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).

  • Episodic coordination model for distributed applications
    Patent number: 9553929
    Abstract: An episodic execution of program instances and a coordinated message exchange protocol are combined to achieve eventual consistency in the communication between nodes of a distributed system. Program instances run in episodic loops that are triggered by defined input events and that generate checkpoints. The checkpoints indicate when messages are to be sent from the one instance to another instance or other device. The coordinated message exchange protocol allows the instance to send a message to a receiver, to acknowledge that the message has been received, and to confirm the acknowledgement to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Taylor, Justin Brown, Kenneth Wolf, Edmund Pinto, Stefan Batres, Nathan Talbert
  • Episodic Coordination Model for Distributed Applications
    Publication number: 20150189016
    Abstract: An episodic execution of program instances and a coordinated message exchange protocol are combined to achieve eventual consistency in the communication between nodes of a distributed system. Program instances run in episodic loops that are triggered by defined input events and that generate checkpoints. The checkpoints indicate when messages are to be sent from the one instance to another instance or other device. The coordinated message exchange protocol allows the instance to send a message to a receiver, to acknowledge that the message has been received, and to confirm the acknowledgement to the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: John Taylor, Justin Brown, Kenneth Wolf, Edmund Pinto, Stefan Batres, Nathan Talbert
  • Episodic coordination model for distributed applications
    Patent number: 8984531
    Abstract: An episodic execution of program instances and a coordinated message exchange protocol are combined to achieve eventual consistency in the communication between nodes of a distributed system. Program instances run in episodic loops that are triggered by defined input events and that generate checkpoints. The checkpoints indicate when messages are to be sent from the one instance to another instance or other device. The coordinated message exchange protocol allows the instance to send a message to a receiver, to acknowledge that the message has been received, and to confirm the acknowledgement to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Taylor, Justin Brown, Kenneth Wolf, Edmund Pinto, Stefan Batres, Nathan Talbert
  • Managing and simplifying distributed applications
    Patent number: 8910182
    Abstract: A distributed instance system manages instances and communications between the instances. The distributed instance system provides a restricted set of communication methods to the instances. Based on the type of communication method used, the distributed instance system has knowledge of the messages sent by instances and can make decisions on how to handle the messages. When one of the instances involved in a message exchange ends, the host uses its knowledge of the message exchange type to determine whether to drop the message, drop a reply to the message, and/or send an error message to the surviving instance. An instance may create one or more child instances in a tree-like configuration. Status data is passed up the tree from children instances and aggregated in the parent instances. Monitoring data may be generated from the aggregated status data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Talbert, John Taylor, Stefan Batres, Justin Brown, Kenneth Wolf, Edmund Pinto
  • Episodic Coordination Model for Distributed Applications
    Publication number: 20120311609
    Abstract: An episodic execution of program instances and a coordinated message exchange protocol are combined to achieve eventual consistency in the communication between nodes of a distributed system. Program instances run in episodic loops that are triggered by defined input events and that generate checkpoints. The checkpoints indicate when messages are to be sent from the one instance to another instance or other device. The coordinated message exchange protocol allows the instance to send a message to a receiver, to acknowledge that the message has been received, and to confirm the acknowledgement to the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Taylor, Justin Brown, Kenneth Wolf, Edmund Pinto, Stefan Batres, Nathan Talbert
  • Managing and Simplifying Distributed Applications
    Publication number: 20120304197
    Abstract: A distributed instance system manages instances and communications between the instances. The distributed instance system provides a restricted set of communication methods to the instances. Based on the type of communication method used, the distributed instance system has knowledge of the messages sent by instances and can make decisions on how to handle the messages. When one of the instances involved in a message exchange ends, the host uses its knowledge of the message exchange type to determine whether to drop the message, drop a reply to the message, and/or send an error message to the surviving instance. An instance may create one or more child instances in a tree-like configuration. Status data is passed up the tree from children instances and aggregated in the parent instances. Monitoring data may be generated from the aggregated status data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nathan Talbert, John Taylor, Stefan Batres, Justin Brown, Kenneth Wolf, Edmund Pinto