Patents by Inventor Frank David Byrum

Frank David Byrum 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).

  • Alerting recipients to errors occurring when accessing external services
    Patent number: 9485202
    Abstract: A hosting provider operates a server system that provides a service to one or more tenants. The server system receives configuration data from the tenants. As part of providing the service to a given tenant, the server system attempts to access an external service due to the configuration data received from the given tenant identifying the external service. Service access errors can occur when attempting to access the external service. In response to determining that an error has occurred when attempting to access the external service, the server system sends a service access alert to a recipient associated with the given tenant. The service access alert notifies the recipient that the error has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan LeCroy, Wilson Li, Mayank Mehta, Ayse Yesim Koman, Victor William Habib Boctor, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Christopher Barnes, Frank David Byrum
  • ALERTING RECIPIENTS TO ERRORS OCCURRING WHEN ACCESSING EXTERNAL SERVICES
    Publication number: 20140258435
    Abstract: A hosting provider operates a server system that provides a service to one or more tenants. The server system receives configuration data from the tenants. As part of providing the service to a given tenant, the server system attempts to access an external service due to the configuration data received from the given tenant identifying the external service. Service access errors can occur when attempting to access the external service. In response to determining that an error has occurred when attempting to access the external service, the server system sends a service access alert to a recipient associated with the given tenant. The service access alert notifies the recipient that the error has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan LeCroy, Wilson Li, Mayank Mehta, Ayse Yesim Koman, Victor William Habib Boctor, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Christopher Barnes, Frank David Byrum
  • Alerting recipients to errors occurring when accessing external services
    Patent number: 8762795
    Abstract: A hosting provider operates a server system that provides a service to one or more tenants. The server system receives configuration data from the tenants. As part of providing the service to a given tenant, the server system attempts to access an external service due to the configuration data received from the given tenant identifying the external service. Service access errors can occur when attempting to access the external service. In response to determining that an error has occurred when attempting to access the external service, the server system sends a service access alert to a recipient associated with the given tenant. The service access alert notifies the recipient that the error has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan LeCroy, Wilson Li, Mayank Mehta, Ayse Yesim Koman, Victor William Habib Boctor, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Christopher Barnes, Frank David Byrum
  • Alerting Recipients to Errors Occurring when Accessing External Services
    Publication number: 20120159268
    Abstract: A hosting provider operates a server system that provides a service to one or more tenants. The server system receives configuration data from the tenants. As part of providing the service to a given tenant, the server system attempts to access an external service due to the configuration data received from the given tenant identifying the external service. Service access errors can occur when attempting to access the external service. In response to determining that an error has occurred when attempting to access the external service, the server system sends a service access alert to a recipient associated with the given tenant. The service access alert notifies the recipient that the error has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan LeCroy, Wilson Li, Mayank Mehta, Ayse Yesim Koman, Victor William Habib Boctor, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Christopher Barnes, Frank David Byrum