Patents by Inventor Liujin Yu

Liujin Yu 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).

  • Patent number: 10467386
    Abstract: Developing, deploying, and operating an application in a plurality of environments is disclosed, including: defining runtime specific configuration information for a plurality of environments, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration includes topology configuration and security configuration, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration information is stored separately from other configuration information and is protected by an identity management system; executing an application in one of the plurality of environments, wherein execution of the application is controlled by a first role; and presenting a credential associated with the first role to the identity management system to obtain a portion of the runtime environment specific configuration information corresponding to the environment associated with the executing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba.com Limited
    Inventors: Liujin Yu, Gregory Charles McNutt
  • Publication number: 20170140132
    Abstract: Developing, deploying, and operating an application in a plurality of environments is disclosed, including: defining runtime specific configuration information for a plurality of environments, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration includes topology configuration and security configuration, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration information is stored separately from other configuration information and is protected by an identity management system; executing an application in one of the plurality of environments, wherein execution of the application is controlled by a first role; and presenting a credential associated with the first role to the identity management system to obtain a portion of the runtime environment specific configuration information corresponding to the environment associated with the executing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Liujin Yu, Gregory Charles McNutt
  • Patent number: 9542566
    Abstract: Developing, deploying, and operating an application in a plurality of environments is disclosed, including: defining runtime specific configuration information for a plurality of environments, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration includes topology configuration and security configuration, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration information is stored separately from other configuration information and is protected by an identity management system; executing an application in one of the plurality of environments, wherein execution of the application is controlled by a first role; and presenting a credential associated with the first role to the identity management system to obtain a portion of the runtime environment specific configuration information corresponding to the environment associated with the executing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Alibaba.com Limited
    Inventors: Liujin Yu, Gregory Charles McNutt
  • Publication number: 20130252221
    Abstract: Presenting and generating questions are disclosed, including: presenting a first set of questions to a plurality of users; collecting a first set of answers pertaining to the first set of questions; generating a second set of questions pertaining to the first set of answers by the plurality of users; and determining influence scores corresponding to the plurality of users based at least in part on a second set of answers pertaining to the second set of questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Alibaba.com Limited
    Inventors: Gregory Charles McNutt, Michael Effle, Charles Bennett Smith, Boris Basevich, Christina Liu, Liujin Yu, Victor Miagkikh, Boomi Perumal, Rodney Andrew Resella
  • Publication number: 20120331519
    Abstract: Developing, deploying, and operating an application in a plurality of environments is disclosed, including: defining runtime specific configuration information for a plurality of environments, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration includes topology configuration and security configuration, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration information is stored separately from other configuration information and is protected by an identity management system; executing an application in one of the plurality of environments, wherein execution of the application is controlled by a first role; and presenting a credential associated with the first role to the identity management system to obtain a portion of the runtime environment specific configuration information corresponding to the environment associated with the executing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: ALIBABA.COM LIMITED
    Inventors: Liujin Yu, Gregory Charles McNutt