Patents by Inventor Erik Bo Christensen

Erik Bo Christensen 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).

  • Web site implementation by mapping expression evaluation
    Patent number: 8645490
    Abstract: Web sites are modeled using mappings from paths to expressions. A mapping data structure of expressions represents a web site's hierarchical structure, and an enumerator, an array of characters, or an array of bytes represents the web site's content. Expressions are written in a declarative programming language, and are lazily evaluated to provide results used in HTTP responses. A mapping may be recursive. An expression may contain a function call which returns contents of a file named in the HTTP request path, or the expression may evaluate to a text string, for example. Expressions may call functions which produce side-effects. An expression may recursively map a directory name to a mapping of a file name. Scalability is promoted by concurrently evaluating expression(s) on different machines in a stateless middle tier, and by streaming results. An arbitrarily large web site may be implemented in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Erik Bo Christensen
  • Mechanism for binding a structured data protocol to a protocol offering up byte streams
    Patent number: 8533357
    Abstract: A mechanism for sending structured data using a corresponding byte stream. Upon accessing structured data such as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) envelope, a byte stream is generated. The byte stream includes bytes that represent the structured data, as well as a collection of bytes that represents properties about the byte stream such as, for example, a mode of communication. The byte stream may then be passed to a communication module (e.g., a TCP or Named Pipes module) capable of receiving and transmitting the byte stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Wolf, Michael Steven Vernal, Christopher G. Kaler, Elliot Lee Waingold, Erik Bo Christensen, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, Martin James Gudgin, Siddhartha Puri
  • Flexibly transferring typed application data
    Patent number: 8296354
    Abstract: The present invention extends to using Simple Object Access Protocol (“SOAP”) to exchange typed objects, such as, for example, parameters for invoking methods. A computer system accesses typed object parameters corresponding to a typed object. The typed object is annotated with one or more message contract attributes of a message contract model defining a mapping between typed object parameters and corresponding SOAP elements. The computer system utilizes the message contract attributes to map the typed object parameters into a SOAP element and inserts the SOAP element into a SOAP envelope. A receiving computer system accessing the SOAP element and utilizes the message contract attributes to map the SOAP element back into the typed object parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Bo Christensen, Vaithiakingam B. Balayoghan, Michael James Coulson, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Natasha Harish Jethanandani, Michael Jon Marucheck, Douglas M. Purdy, Kenneth David Wolf, Michael Steven Vernal, Stefan Harrington Pharies, David Wortendyke
  • Transparent envelope for XML messages
    Patent number: 8190975
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Transparent envelope for XML messages
    Patent number: 8136019
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Web Site Implementation by Mapping Expression Evaluation
    Publication number: 20110302267
    Abstract: Web sites are modeled using mappings from paths to expressions. A mapping data structure of expressions represents a web site's hierarchical structure, and an enumerator, an array of characters, or an array of bytes represents the web site's content. Expressions are written in a declarative programming language, and are lazily evaluated to provide results used in HTTP responses. A mapping may be recursive. An expression may contain a function call which returns contents of a file named in the HTTP request path, or the expression may evaluate to a text string, for example. Expressions may call functions which produce side-effects. An expression may recursively map a directory name to a mapping of a file name. Scalability is promoted by concurrently evaluating expression(s) on different machines in a stateless middle tier, and by streaming results. An arbitrarily large web site may be implemented in this manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Erik Bo Christensen
  • TRANSPARENT ENVELOPE FOR XML MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20110145684
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • TRANSPARENT ENVELOPE FOR XML MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20110145685
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Transparent envelope for XML messages
    Patent number: 7925783
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Message delivery downgrading annotations
    Patent number: 7836172
    Abstract: Selectively modifying a message delivery requirement of a datagram message at an intermediary network node between an origin and a destination. A message delivery requirement is defined for a particular message. The message delivery guarantee defines how to transmit the particular message. A downgrading intent of the particular message is provided for the message at the origin. The downgrading intent of the particular message indicates that the message delivery requirement can be bypassed. The defined message delivery guarantee, the network delivery requirement, and the provided downgrading intent of the particular message are processed at the intermediate network node. The message delivery requirement of the particular message is ignored based on the provided downgrading intent. The message is delivered via a network protocol according to the provided downgrading intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services
    Patent number: 7512957
    Abstract: A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shy Cohen, Geary L. Eppley, Douglas M. Purdy, James E. Johnson, Stephen J. Millet, Stephen T. Swartz, Vijay K. Gajjala, Aaron Abraham Stern, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt, Alfred M. Lee, IV, Anand Rjagopalan, Anastasios Kasiolas, Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Christopher G. Kaler, Craig Andrew Critchley, David Edwin Levin, David Owen Driver, David Wortendyke, Douglas A. Walter, Elliot Lee Waingold, Erik Bo Christensen, Erin P. Honeycutt, Eugene Shvets, Evgeny Osovetsky, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, John David Doty, Jonathan T. Wheeler, Kapil Gupta, Kenneth David Wolf, Krishnan Srinivasan, Lance E. Olson, Matthew Thomas Tavis, Mauro Ottaviani, Max Attar Feingold, Michael James Coulson, Michael Jon Marucheck, Michael Steven Vernal, Michael Thomas Dice, Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan, Mohammad Makarechian, Natasha Harish Jethanandani, Richard Dievendorff, Richard Douglas Hill, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Saurab Nog, Scott Christopher Seely, Serge Sverdlov, Siddhartha Puri, Sowmyanarayanan K. Srinivasan, Stefan Batres, Stefan Harrington Pharies, Tirunelveli Vishwanath, Tomasz Janczuk, Uday S. Hegde, Umesh Madan, Vaithialingam B. Balayogan, Vipul Arunkant Modi, Yaniv Pessach, Yasser Shohoud
  • MESSAGE DELIVERY DOWNGRADING ANNOTATIONS
    Publication number: 20080291909
    Abstract: Selectively modifying a message delivery requirement of a datagram message at an intermediary network node between an origin and a destination. A message delivery requirement is defined for a particular message. The message delivery guarantee defines how to transmit the particular message. A downgrading intent of the particular message is provided for the message at the origin. The downgrading intent of the particular message indicates that the message delivery requirement can be bypassed. The defined message delivery guarantee, the network delivery requirement, and the provided downgrading intent of the particular message are processed at the intermediate network node. The message delivery requirement of the particular message is ignored based on the provided downgrading intent. The message is delivered via a network protocol according to the provided downgrading intent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • TRANSPARENT ENVELOPE FOR XML MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20080294971
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf