Patents by Inventor Mark Brewster

Mark Brewster 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).

  • Cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications
    Patent number: 9292360
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the cross-platform APIs support interoperability and extensibility with various application programs using a single language and/or set of APIs. Extensions authored for a particular application program may be used with other application programs that expose the same or a similar set of APIs, even if other object models or APIs associated with the application programs differ from one another. Thus, the APIs support cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-version compatibility of extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Juan Gabriel Balmori Labra, Mark Brewster, Zhenyu Tang, Rolando Jimenez-Salgado, Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Joseph Wai-Yan Woo, Shahar Prish, Keyur Patel, Andrew Salamatov, David Claux, Jason Todd Henderson
  • APPLICATION ACTIVATION USING DECOUPLED VERSIONING
    Publication number: 20140380341
    Abstract: Instead of an application specifying that it uses an entire API, the application specifies the subset(s) of the API that it uses. Specific hosts can choose when to implement a subset of the API set without having to support other subsets of the API. When the host implements a subset of API set that was not previously supported, an application that specified the use of the newly supported subset begins to work on the hosts automatically. An application may specify subsets having different versions. For example, the versions of different subsets that are specified may be different. When the host supports the subsets used by the application, the application is activated (i.e. “run”). When the host does not support one or more of the subsets used by the application, the application is not activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Matt Geimer, Yi Jin, Mark Brewster, Hailei Zhang, Sylvain Dechatre, Shawn McDowell
  • Cross-Platform Application Programming Interfaces for Applications
    Publication number: 20140344838
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the cross-platform APIs support interoperability and extensibility with various application programs using a single language and/or set of APIs. Extensions authored for a particular application program may be used with other application programs that expose the same or a similar set of APIs, even if other object models or APIs associated with the application programs differ from one another. Thus, the APIs support cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-version compatibility of extensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Juan Gabriel Balmori Labra, Mark Brewster, Zhenyu Tang, Rolando Jimenez-Salgado, Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Joseph Wai-Yan Woo, Shahar Prish, Keyur Patel, Andrew Salamatov, David Claux, Jason Todd Henderson
  • Cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications
    Patent number: 8881179
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the cross-platform APIs support interoperability and extensibility with various application programs using a single language and/or set of APIs. Extensions authored for a particular application program may be used with other application programs that expose the same or a similar set of APIs, even if other object models or APIs associated with the application programs differ from one another. Thus, the APIs support cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-version compatibility of extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Gabriel Balmori Labra, Mark Brewster, Zhenyu Tang, Rolando Jimenez-Salgado, Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Joseph Wai-Yan Woo, Shahar Prish, Keyur Patel, Andrew Salamatov, David Claux, Jason Todd Henderson
  • Cross-Platform Application Programming Interfaces for Applications
    Publication number: 20130125145
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for cross-platform application programming interfaces for applications. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the cross-platform APIs support interoperability and extensibility with various application programs using a single language and/or set of APIs. Extensions authored for a particular application program may be used with other application programs that expose the same or a similar set of APIs, even if other object models or APIs associated with the application programs differ from one another. Thus, the APIs support cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-version compatibility of extensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juan Gabriel Balmori Labra, Mark Brewster, Zhenyu Tang, Rolando Jimenez-Salgado, Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Joseph Wai-Yan Woo, Shahar Prish, Keyur Patel, Andrew Salamatov, David Claux, Jason Todd Henderson