Patents by Inventor John Macintyre
John Macintyre 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: 11593094Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Ori Amiga, John MacIntyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20220276857Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Ori AMIGA, John MACINTYRE, Dharma SHUKLA, Junfeng ZHANG
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Patent number: 11366654Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Ori Amiga, John MacIntyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20210357200Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Ori AMIGA, John MACINTYRE, Dharma SHUKLA, Junfeng ZHANG
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Patent number: 10970062Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Ori Amiga, John Macintyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 10686875Abstract: A server set may provide a document service to various clients in view of considerations such as availability, fault tolerance, flexibility, and performance. Presented herein are document service architectures that involve partitioning the document set into at least two document ranges, and assigning the respective document ranges to an agent that is deployed to at least one assigned server. A request to apply an operation to a selected document may be fulfilled by identifying the document range of the document; identifying a selected server of the server set that hosts the agent to which the range is assigned; and forwarding the request to the selected server. In some variations, servers may retain detailed information about neighboring servers (e.g., according to logical and/or physical proximity) and scant information about distant servers, thereby avoiding both the extensive information exchange of highly informed network architectures and the inefficiency of uninformed routing algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Dharma Shukla, Madhan Gajendran, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Shireesh Thota, Karthik Raman, Mark Connolly Benvenuto, John Macintyre, Nemanja Matkovic, Constantin Dulu, Elisa Marie Flasko, Atul Katiyar
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Publication number: 20200110594Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Ori AMIGA, John MACINTYRE, Dharma SHUKLA, Junfeng ZHANG
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Patent number: 10514901Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Ori Amiga, John Macintyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20190158580Abstract: A server set may provide a document service to various clients in view of considerations such as availability, fault tolerance, flexibility, and performance. Presented herein are document service architectures that involve partitioning the document set into at least two document ranges, and assigning the respective document ranges to an agent that is deployed to at least one assigned server. A request to apply an operation to a selected document may be fulfilled by identifying the document range of the document; identifying a selected server of the server set that hosts the agent to which the range is assigned; and forwarding the request to the selected server. In some variations, servers may retain detailed information about neighboring servers (e.g., according to logical and/or physical proximity) and scant information about distant servers, thereby avoiding both the extensive information exchange of highly informed network architectures and the inefficiency of uninformed routing algorithms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Dharma SHUKLA, Madhan GAJENDRAN, Quetzalcoatl BRADLEY, Shireesh Kumar THOTA, Karthik RAMAN, Mark Connolly BENVENUTO, John MACINTYRE, Nemanja MATKOVIC, Constantin DULU, Elisa Marie FLASKO, Atul KATIYAR
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Patent number: 10212218Abstract: A server set may provide a document service to various clients in view of considerations such as availability, fault tolerance, flexibility, and performance. Presented herein are document service architectures that involve partitioning the document set into at least two document ranges, and assigning the respective document ranges to an agent that is deployed to at least one assigned server. A request to apply an operation to a selected document may be fulfilled by identifying the document range of the document; identifying a selected server of the server set that hosts the agent to which the range is assigned; and forwarding the request to the selected server. In some variations, servers may retain detailed information about neighboring servers (e.g., according to logical and/or physical proximity) and scant information about distant servers, thereby avoiding both the extensive information exchange of highly informed network architectures and the inefficiency of uninformed routing algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dharma Shukla, Madhan Gajendran, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Shireesh Kumar Thota, Karthik Raman, Mark Connolly Benvenuto, John Macintyre, Nemanja Matkovic, Constantin Dulu, Elisa Marie Flasko, Atul Katiyar
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Publication number: 20170357498Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Ori Amiga, John Macintyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20170318085Abstract: A server set may provide a document service to various clients in view of considerations such as availability, fault tolerance, flexibility, and performance. Presented herein are document service architectures that involve partitioning the document set into at least two document ranges, and assigning the respective document ranges to an agent that is deployed to at least one assigned server. A request to apply an operation to a selected document may be fulfilled by identifying the document range of the document; identifying a selected server of the server set that hosts the agent to which the range is assigned; and forwarding the request to the selected server. In some variations, servers may retain detailed information about neighboring servers (e.g., according to logical and/or physical proximity) and scant information about distant servers, thereby avoiding both the extensive information exchange of highly informed network architectures and the inefficiency of uninformed routing algorithms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Dharma Shukla, Madhan Gajendran, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Shireesh Kumar Thota, Karthik Raman, Mark Connolly Benvenuto, John Macintyre, Nemanja Matkovic, Constantin Dulu, Elisa Marie Flasko, Atul Katiyar
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Patent number: 9753712Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ori Amiga, John Macintyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 9712608Abstract: A server set may provide a document service to one or more clients, and may be configured to do so in view of various considerations such as availability, fault tolerance, flexibility, and performance. Presented herein are document service architectures that involve partitioning the document set into at least two document ranges, and configuring respective servers of the server set to host one or more agents to which are respectively assigned one or more document ranges. A request for an operation involving at least one document may be routed to a server hosting an agent managing the document ranges of the documents involved in the operation. Moreover, respective servers may retain detailed information about neighboring servers (e.g., according to a logical or physical proximity) and scant information about distant servers, thereby avoiding both the extensive information exchange of highly informed network architectures and the inefficiency of uninformed routing algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dharma Shukla, Madhan Gajendran, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Shireesh Kumar Thota, Karthik Raman, Mark Connolly Benvenuto, John Macintyre, Nemanja Matkovic, Constantin Dulu, Elisa Marie Flasko, Atul Katiyar
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Patent number: 9197500Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at configuring a server based on a selected role. An installation application is configured to install core components in a server where these core components enable the server to perform the basic functions of a network computing device. A role management application is configured to enable a system administrator to select a role for the server and to automatically determine software components associated with the selected role. The role management application is then configured to build the software components and install the components on the server. The role management application is further configured to configure the components for the selected role. The automated installation process performed by the role management application enables a server to be efficiently configured for a particular role without installing other unnecessary components unrelated to the role.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew T. Mason, William A. Laing, John Macintyre, Richard A. Pletcher
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Publication number: 20140280707Abstract: A server set may provide a document service to one or more clients, and may be configured to do so in view of various considerations such as availability, fault tolerance, flexibility, and performance. Presented herein are document service architectures that involve partitioning the document set into at least two document ranges, and configuring respective servers of the server set to host one or more agents to which are respectively assigned one or more document ranges. A request for an operation involving at least one document may be routed to a server hosting an agent managing the document ranges of the documents involved in the operation. Moreover, respective servers may retain detailed information about neighboring servers (e.g., according to a logical or physical proximity) and scant information about distant servers, thereby avoiding both the extensive information exchange of highly informed network architectures and the inefficiency of uninformed routing algorithms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dharma Shukla, Madhan Gajendran, Quetzalcoatl Bradley, Shireesh Kumar Thota, Karthik Raman, Mark Connolly Benvenuto, John Macintyre, Nemanja Matkovic, Constantin Dulu, Elisa Marie Flasko, Atul Katiyar
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Patent number: 8370924Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at configuring a server based on a selected role. An installation application is configured to install core components in a server where these core components enable the server to perform the basic functions of a network computing device. A role management application is configured to enable a system administrator to select a role for the server and to automatically determine software components associated with the selected role. The role management application is then configured to build the software components and install the components on the server. The role management application is further configured to configure the components for the selected role. The automated installation process performed by the role management application enables a server to be efficiently configured for a particular role without installing other unnecessary components unrelated to the role.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew T. Mason, William A. Laing, John Macintyre, Richard A. Pletcher
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Publication number: 20100332632Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at configuring a server based on a selected role. An installation application is configured to install core components in a server where these core components enable the server to perform the basic functions of a network computing device. A role management application is configured to enable a system administrator to select a role for the server and to automatically determine software components associated with the selected role. The role management application is then configured to build the software components and install the components on the server. The role management application is further configured to configure the components for the selected role. The automated installation process performed by the role management application enables a server to be efficiently configured for a particular role without installing other unnecessary components unrelated to the role.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew T. Mason, William A. Laing, John Macintyre, Richard A. Pletcher
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Patent number: 7793284Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at configuring a server based on a selected role. An installation application is configured to install core components in a server where these core components enable the server to perform the basic functions of a network computing device. A role management application is configured to enable a system administrator to select a role for the server and to automatically determine software components associated with the selected role. The role management application is then configured to build the software components and install the components on the server. The role management application is further configured to configure the components for the selected role. The automated installation process performed by the role management application enables a server to be efficiently configured for a particular role without installing other unnecessary components unrelated to the role.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew T. Mason, William A. Laing, John Macintyre, Richard A. Pletcher
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Publication number: 20090241104Abstract: The management of applications in a computing environment often involves a significant number of computing operations, such as acquiring the application, deploying data objects in various locations, and configuring the application with respect to the deployed device. Conventional computing environments may provide inadequate support throughout a typical application life cycle, especially for a computing environment distributed across many devices. Instead, the computing environment may be represented in a deployable object hierarchy that may be distributed to various devices. An application management service may therefore be provided to install representations of the application in the object hierarchy, and to support many other aspects of the application life cycle, such as application discovery, sharing, updating, and removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Ori Amiga, John Macintyre, Dharma Shukla, Junfeng Zhang