Patents by Inventor Edward J. Praitis
Edward J. Praitis 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: 9762668Abstract: A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amar S. Gandhi, Edward J. Praitis, Jane T. Kim, Sean O. Lyndersay, Walter V. von Koch, William Gould, Bruce A. Morgan, Cindy Kwan
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Publication number: 20150235047Abstract: Certain applications, especially legacy applications, try to write to areas of the system that require administrator privileges and hence fail to run successfully for users with lessened privileges. The disclosed system redirects certain file writes, i.e., globally impactful file writes to specific locations that require administrator privileges and would otherwise fail for others users, so as to allow the same file writes to succeed by redirecting them to happen in the context of the user, i.e., in a per-user virtualization location. In particular, virtualization only occurs when the application is actually going to write to the file, not just when file access is requested without an intention of writing to or otherwise actually altering the file. Following virtualization, applications are redirected to use the virtualized files. The system thus allows users to run applications that otherwise would not be enabled, and to maintain a higher level of security when doing so.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Charles T. Lenzmeier, Edward J. Praitis, John Stephens, Michael J. Gallop, RoseMarie FitzSimons
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Patent number: 8874970Abstract: Embodiments are configured to improve the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Benedek, Roberto A. Franco, Quji Guo, J. Craig Hally, Reid T. Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J. Praitis, Christopher T. Sager, Brian D. Wentz
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Publication number: 20140115109Abstract: A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Amar S. Gandhi, Edward J. Praitis, Jane T. Kim, Sean O. Lyndersay, Walter V. von Koch, William Gould, Bruce A. Morgan, Cindy Kwan
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Patent number: 8661459Abstract: A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2005Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amar S. Gandhi, Edward J. Praitis, Jane T. Kim, Sean O. Lyndersay, Walter V. von Koch, William Gould, Bruce A. Morgan, Cindy Kwan
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Publication number: 20130227388Abstract: A client application, such as an HTTP client, stores script profile data associated with JavaScript compilation as metadata in a cache, such as an HTTP indexed cache, for a given entry. Accessing the indexed data can be performed much faster without incurring additional disk input/output operations, thus facilitating compilation activities. In addition, an identifier such as the script URL can be used to efficiently enable compilation across websites that commonly utilize the same JavaScript.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Trunley, Ivan D. Pashov, M. David Fields, JR., Edward J. Praitis, Jonathan A. Silvera
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Patent number: 8356211Abstract: Embodiments are configured to improve the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Benedek, Roberto A. Franco, Quji Guo, J. Craig Hally, Reid T. Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J. Praitis, Christopher T. Sager, Brian D. Wentz
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Publication number: 20130013954Abstract: Embodiments are configured to improve the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Benedek, Roberto A. Franco, Quji Guo, J. Craig Hally, Reid T. Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J. Praitis, Christopher T. Sager, Brian D. Wentz
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Publication number: 20120137183Abstract: Embodiments are configured to improve the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Benedek, Roberto A. Franco, Quji Guo, J. Craig Hally, Reid T. Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J. Praitis, Christopher T. Sager, Brian D. Wentz
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Patent number: 8112673Abstract: The present invention improves the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Benedek, Roberto A. Franco, Quji Guo, J. Craig Hally, Reid T. Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J. Praitis, Christopher T. Sager, Brian D. Wentz
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Patent number: 7865830Abstract: System(s) and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that present content in a user interface tailored to trait(s) of the content. The tools can analyze content to determine its traits, classify the content based on its traits, and present the content in a user interface tailored to the classification. The tools can also organize content items into groups based on a common trait and enable a user to select content items through their group. Responsive to the user's selection of a group, the tools can present content, render enclosures, and alter traits of the content items in the group.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jane T Kim, Amar S. Gandhi, Walter V. von Koch, Sean O. Lyndersay, Edward J. Praitis, William Gould, David M. Ruzyski
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Patent number: 7587594Abstract: Preventing uncontrolled access to an execution environment of a first component object by a second component object. A system includes a memory area storing the first component object, the second component object, and one or more predefined properties associated with the second component object. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a request from the first component object stored in the memory area to create the second component object stored in the memory area. The first component object executes in a first execution environment and the request specifies a requested execution environment for the second component object. The processor is also configured for analyzing the predefined properties stored in the memory area to determine an execution environment privilege associated with the second component object. The processor is configured for granting the received request as a function of the determined execution environment privilege.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2004Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jude Jacob Kavalam, Edward J. Praitis, Jonathan C. Lew, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Timothy D. Noonan, Valeriy V. Tsuryk
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Publication number: 20090183155Abstract: Isolation of extension code by processes in an application is described. In an implementation, execution of one or more processes is managed that contain content received via a network by another process of a single application that includes the one or more processes. The management includes terminating the one or more processes when not responsive. Execution of the one or more processes is isolated from the other process such that when the one or more processes are not responsive the other process remains responsive. The content in the terminated one or more processes is then recovered.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Edward J. Praitis, Shawn M. Woods, David M. Ruzyski
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Publication number: 20080235536Abstract: The present invention improves the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph E. Benedek, Roberto A. Franco, Quji Guo, J. Craig Hally, Reid T. Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J. Praitis, Christopher T. Sager, Brian D. Wentz
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Patent number: 7398433Abstract: The present invention improves the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph E Benedek, Roberto A Franco, Quji Guo, J Craig Hally, Reid T Holmes, Roman Pamucci, Edward J Praitis, Christopher T Sager, Brian D Wentz
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Patent number: 7321988Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to improving the stability of computing devices by identifying plug-in modules and other programs that cause failures. More specifically, the present invention provides a method that traces program execution from an instruction that ultimately generated a failure to a code library that caused the failure generating instruction to be executed. The method traces execution of the computing device by obtaining the contents of memory at the time of the failure and traversing the stack data structure that stores data items necessary to execute function calls.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Quji Guo, Roberto A Franco, Edward J Praitis, Li-Hsin Huang, Jingyang Xu, Brian D Wentz, Julian Jiggins, Venkatavaradhan Panchapagesan
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Patent number: 6594697Abstract: A computer-implemented browser on a client computer that requests electronic documents from a server computer over a computer network and displays friendly error messages or pages when an error is detected. The browser analyzes a response returned to the client computer from the server computer to determine whether an error occurred using information in the header of the response. If an error is detected, the browser analyzes the response to determine whether the response comprises a friendly error page. If not, the browser replaces the page returned in the response with a friendly page in that the browser displays a page separate from the page returned with the response. The replacement page is designed to be more user friendly.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1999Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Edward J. Praitis, Scott Berkun
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Patent number: 6097380Abstract: A network system includes one or more network servers and a plurality of available media streams. The media streams are formatted differently. Some are file-based streams, supplied by the network servers. Others are supplied by local tuners from digital and/or analog signal broadcasts. A network client executes an application program that is to control rendering of the media streams. Each media stream is represented by a programming object. Each programming object has identical interface functions that can be invoked by the application program to control playback of the different media streams even though such media streams are of different media types.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1996Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brian D. Crites, Edward J. Praitis