Patents by Inventor Erik Jon Snapper

Erik Jon Snapper 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).

  • Update checking and synchronization for link and offline data
    Patent number: 8065673
    Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
  • Object framework and services for periodically recurring operations
    Patent number: 7493613
    Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
  • Object framework and services for periodically recurring operations
    Publication number: 20040221289
    Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed
  • Object framework and services for periodically recurring operations
    Patent number: 6745224
    Abstract: A computer system includes an object oriented framework that provides a set of application integration interfaces that support programmatic updating operations for maintaining locally stored copies of resources such as hypertext document pages from remote servers on a computer network. The updating operations continually check for updates to the data at the remote server and download updated versions of the resources to maintain concurrency of the locally stored copy. The updating operations are performed while a connection to the remote network is left idle, to maximize usage of on-line connection time. The updating operations also can be programmatically scheduled by a client program of the updating operations. The updating operations include updating the contents of a folder or directory in a local file system as specified in a file at a remote server on the network, and providing automatically updating and populating groups of sites or document pages organized by category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David J. D'Souza, Sabina Nawaz, Erik Jon Snapper, Darren Mitchell, Raymond Edward Endres, Teresa Martineau, Bharat Shyam, Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor, Mohsin Ahmed