Patents by Inventor Henry L. Sanders

Henry L. Sanders 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).

  • Securing uniform resource identifier namespaces
    Patent number: 7200862
    Abstract: A namespace management module utilizes a persistent reservation store that associates URI namespaces with one or more permissions. The reservation store can contain a number of reservation entries that each include a URI identifying a URI namespace and a corresponding Access Control List (“ACLs”) that includes permissions for the identified URI namespace. When a request to register a URI namespace is received, the permissions of an appropriate ACL can be checked to determine if the registration is approved. When a resource request is received, permissions of the ACLs can also be checked to determine if the resource request should be routed to a registered process. Preemptive wildcards can be included in aggregated URIs to identify aggregated URI namespaces. Aggregated URIs can be included in registration requests to override the registration of unauthorized processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Arvind M. Murching, Henry L. Sanders, Eric B. Stenson, Shivakumar Seetharaman, Rajesh Sundaram, Anish V. Desai, George V. Reilly
  • Protocol agnostic web listener
    Patent number: 7120916
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating exposing a resource over a protocol is provided. The system includes a class factory that holds identifiers associated with determining which, if any, registered listener object creator should be employed to create a listener object. The listener object implements an abstract network protocol base class. The listener object is employed to abstract details of exposing a resource over a protocol and to provide a byte stream interface to communications occurring over the protocol, while removing protocol specific code from a server program. The method includes creating an instance of a listener object from a source of registered protocol handlers based on a request to expose a resource over a protocol and using a base class API to communicate over the protocol through the listener object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. Firth, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Lance E. Olson, Henry L. Sanders
  • Application program interface for network software platform
    Patent number: 7017162
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions, including a set of base classes and types that are used in substantially all applications accessing the API, for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adam W. Smith, Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Caleb L. Doise, Christopher W. Brumme, Christopher L. Anderson, Corina E. Feuerstein, Craig T. Sinclair, Daniel Takacs, David S. Ebbo, David O. Driver, David S. Mortenson, Erik B. Christensen, Erik B. Olson, Fabio A. Yeon, Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Gregory D. Fee, Hany E. Ramadan, Henry L. Sanders, Jayanth V. Rajan, Jeffrey M. Cooperstein, Jonathan C. Hawkins, James H. Hogg, Joe D. Long, John I. McConnell, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, James S. Miller, Julie D. Bennett, Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Lance E. Olson, Loren M. Kohnfelder, Michael M. Magruder, Manish S. Prabhu, Radu Rares Palanca, Raja Krishnaswamy, Shawn P. Burke, Sean E. Trowbridge, Seth M. Demsey, Shajan Dasan, Stefan H. Pharies, Suzanne M. Cook, Tarun Anand, Travis J. Muhlestein, Yann E. Christensen, Yung-shin Lin, Ramasamy Krishnaswamy, Joseph Roxe, Alan Boshier, David Bau
  • Application program interface for network software platform
    Patent number: 7013469
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions, including a set of base classes and types that are used in substantially all applications accessing the API, for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adam W. Smith, Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Caleb L. Doise, Christopher W. Brumme, Christopher L. Anderson, Corina E. Feuerstein, Craig T. Sinclair, Daniel Takacs, David S. Ebbo, David O. Driver, David S. Mortenson, Erik B. Christensen, Erik B. Olson, Fabio A. Yeon, Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Gregory D. Fee, Hany E. Ramadan, Henry L. Sanders, Jayanth V. Rajan, Jeffrey M. Cooperstein, Jonathan C. Hawkins, James H. Hogg, Joe D. Long, John I. McConnell, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, James S. Miller, Julie D. Bennett, Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Lance E. Olson, Loren M. Kohnfelder, Michael M. Magruder, Manish S. Prabhu, Radu Rares Palanca, Raja Krishnaswamy, Shawn P. Burke, Sean E. Trowbridge, Seth M. Demsey, Shajan Dasan, Stefan H. Pharies, Suzanne M. Cook, Tarun Anand, Travis J. Muhlestein, Yann E. Christensen, Yung-shin Lin, Ramasamy Krishnaswamy, Joseph Roxe, Alan Boshier, David Bau
  • Protocol agnostic request response pattern
    Patent number: 6996833
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating communications over a protocol is provided. The system includes a class factory that holds identifiers associated with determining which, if any, registered protocol object creator should be employed to create a protocol object. The protocol object implements an abstract network protocol base class. The protocol object is employed to abstract details of communicating over a protocol and to provide a byte stream interface to communications occurring over the protocol, while removing protocol specific code from an application program. The method includes creating an instance of a protocol object from a source of registered protocol handlers based on a request to communicate over a protocol and using a base class API to communicate over the protocol through the protocol object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lance E. Olson, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Henry L. Sanders, Richard L. Firth
  • Protocol agnostic web listener
    Patent number: 6931647
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating exposing a resource over a protocol is provided. The system includes a class factory that holds identifiers associated with determining which, if any, registered listener object creator should be employed to create a listener object. The listener object implements an abstract network protocol base class. The listener object is employed to abstract details of exposing a resource over a protocol and to provide a byte stream interface to communications occurring over the protocol, while removing protocol specific code from a server program. The method includes creating an instance of a listener object from a source of registered protocol handlers based on a request to expose a resource over a protocol and using a base class API to communicate over the protocol through the listener object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. Firth, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Lance E. Olson, Henry L. Sanders
  • Securing uniform resource identifier namespaces
    Publication number: 20040064721
    Abstract: A namespace management module utilizes a persistent reservation store that associates URI namespaces with one or more permissions. The reservation store can contain a number of reservation entries that each include a URI identifying a URI namespace and a corresponding Access Control List (“ACLs”) that includes permissions for the identified URI namespace. When a request to register a URI namespace is received, the permissions of an appropriate ACL can be checked to determine if the registration is approved. When a resource request is received, permissions of the ACLs can also be checked to determine if the resource request should be routed to a registered process. Preemptive wildcards can be included in aggregated URIs to identify aggregated URI namespaces. Aggregated URIs can be included in registration requests to override the registration of unauthorized processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Arvind M. Murching, Henry L. Sanders, Eric B. Stenson, Shivakumar Seetharaman, Rajesh Sundaram, Anish V. Desai, George V. Reilly
  • Web server architecture
    Publication number: 20040044760
    Abstract: An improved web server design includes a kernel-based listener service that is configured by a user-mode based administrative process. When a web request is received by the listener service it is placed in a queue associated with an application pool having one or more user-mode web applications configured to process received web requests. The web applications are selectively started and stopped by the administrative process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Eric D. Deily, Douglas C. Hebenthal, Charles K. Moore, David R. Treadwell, Henry L. Sanders
  • Methods and systems for processing HTTP requests
    Patent number: 6629127
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention are directed to closely integrating functionality between an internet server and a WebDAV tool. Areas of specific focus in this document include delegation of duties between the internet server and the WebDAV tool, efficient management of a resource's content-type, support for segregation of a namespace into separate virtual roots, and determinations of whether to invoke certain processing extensions to handle requests for a given HTTP verb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Deen, Joel M. Soderberg, Van C. Van, Henry L. Sanders
  • Application program interface for network software platform
    Publication number: 20030167356
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions, including a set of base classes and types that are used in substantially all applications accessing the API, for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Adam W. Smith, Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Caleb L. Doise, Christopher W. Brumme, Christopher L. Anderson, Corina E. Feuerstein, Craig T. Sinclair, Daniel Takacs, David S. Ebbo, David O. Driver, David S. Mortenson, Erik B. Christensen, Erik B. Olson, Fabio A. Yeon, Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Gregory D. Fee, Hany E. Ramadan, Henry L. Sanders, Jayanth V. Rajan, Jeffrey M. Cooperstein, Jonathan C. Hawkins, James H. Hogg, Joe D. Long, John I. McConnell, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, James S. Miller, Julie D. Bennett, Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Lance E. Olson, Loren M. Kohnfelder, Michael M. Magruder, Manish S. Prabhu, Radu Rares Palanca, Raja Krishnaswamy, Shawn P. Burke, Sean E. Trowbridge, Seth M. Demsey, Shajan Dasan, Stefan H. Pharies, Suzanne M. Cook, Tarun Anand, Travis J. Muhlestein, Yann E. Christensen, Yung-shin Lin, Ramasamy Krishnaswamy, Joseph Roxe, Alan Boshier, David Bau
  • Methods and systems for processing HTTP requests
    Publication number: 20030167317
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention are directed to closely integrating functionality between an internet server and a WebDAV tool. Areas of specific focus in this document include delegation of duties between the internet server and the WebDAV tool, efficient management of a resource's content-type, support for segregation of a namespace into separate virtual roots, and determinations of whether to invoke certain processing extensions to handle requests for a given HTTP verb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Brian J. Deen, Joel M. Soderberg, Van C. Van, Henry L. Sanders
  • System and method for directing requests to specific processing
    Patent number: 6615231
    Abstract: The present invention provides for directing requests to specific processing using an inclusion list. The inclusion list contains a list of methods that an associated process, program, or module is capable of executing. A request contains at least a method and a resource. A server, upon receiving the request, identifies the process module or handler that is associated with the resource by the file extension of the resource. After the process is identified, an inclusion list is examined to determine if the process is capable of performing the identified method. If the method is listed in the inclusion list, then processing is directed to the identified process, which performs the indicated method with regard to the identified resource. If the method is not listed in the inclusion list, then control of the request is not provided to the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Deen, Van C. Van, Henry L. Sanders
  • Application program interface for network software platform
    Publication number: 20030028685
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Adam W. Smith, Anthony J. Moore, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian A. LaMacchia, Blaine J. Dockter, Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Brian K. Pepin, Caleb L. Doise, Christopher W. Brumme, Chad W. Royal, Christopher L. Anderson, Corina E. Feuerstein, Craig T. Sinclair, Daniel Dedu-Constantin, Daniel Takacs, David S. Ebbo, David S. Mortenson, Erik B. Christensen, Erik B. Olson, Fabio A. Yeon, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Gregory D. Fee, Hany E. Ramadan, Jayanth V. Rajan, Jeffrey M. Cooperstein, Jonathan C. Hawkins, James H. Hogg, Joe D. Long, John I. McConnell, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, James S. Miller, Julie D. Bennett, Jun Fang, Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Keith W. Ballinger, Lance E. Olson, Loren M. Kohnfelder, Luca Bolognese, Manu Vasandani, Mark T. Anders, Mark P. Ashton, Mark A. Boulter, Mark W. Fussell, Michael M. Magruder, Manish S. Prabhu, Neetu Rajpal, Nikhil Kothari, Nithyalakshmi Sampathkumar, Nicholas M. Kramer, Omri Gazitt, Radu Rares Palanca, Raja Krishnaswamy, Robert M. Howard, Ramasamy Krishnaswamy, Shawn P. Burke, Scott D. Guthrie, Sean E. Trowbridge, Seth M. Demsey, Shajan Dasan, Subhag P. Oak, Sreeram Nivarthi, Stefan H. Pharies, Suzanne M. Cook, Susan M. Warren, Tarun Anand, Travis J. Muhlestein, William A. Adams, Yan Leshinsky, Yann E. Christensen, Yung-shin Lin, Stephen J. Miller, Joseph Roxe, Alan Boshier, Henry L. Sanders, David Bau
  • System and method for administering a meta database as an integral component of an information server
    Patent number: 6061692
    Abstract: An information server adapted to service requests for information has an integral database containing configuration information, application information, and/or content information. The information in the database is stored in a hierarchical fashion with elements that correspond, in some degree, with physical storage structure or individual information objects on the information server. Path names received in information requests are broken into constituent components and are used to retrieve configuration information, application information, and/or content information from the database and information objects from physical storage. In the database properties stored at one hierarchical level may be inherited by lower hierarchical levels. The database is preferably provided with a programmatic interface that allows concurrent access to and administration of the database. Mechanisms to notify registered users of changes or events that occur with respect to the database are implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Thomas, James E. Allard, Michael Howard, Sophia Chung, Cameron Ferroni, Douglas C. Henbenthal, John Ludeman, Kim Stebbens, Henry L. Sanders, II, David R. Treadwell, III