Patents by Inventor Max A. Feingold

Max A. Feingold 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: 7912973
    Abstract: A mechanism for negotiating a relatively transport agnostic communication protocol for use in accomplishing a distributed activity. The potential protocols subject to negotiation may be, for example, extensions to Web Services Coordination. In that case, when the initiator creates a transaction, the initiator also negotiates the desired protocol with its transaction manager. The transaction manager and any other participants in the transaction will then follow that negotiated protocol when communicating with the transaction manager. The protocol may be selected to improve performance and may be tailored to existing needs and capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Max A. Feingold, David E. Langworthy, James E. Johnson, John D. Doty, Michael R. Clark
  • Patent number: 7873832
    Abstract: Mechanisms for securely allowing a participant computing entity to engage in a transaction initiated by an initiator computing entity and managed by a coordinator computing entity. The initiator provides a transaction initiation request to the coordinator. Upon receipt, the coordinator accessing a transaction coordination context that includes information such as a secure key that may be used by a participant to register in the transaction. The coordinator then provides the coordination context to the initiator, which provides the coordination context to the participant(s) that are also to engage in the transaction. Each participant then generates a registration request that is based on the coordination context, and that is secured using the secure key provided in the coordination context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Max A. Feingold, David E. Langworthy, Christopher G. Kaler, James E. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7730095
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling transactions in accordance with role based security. A first transaction related component receives a transaction related message from a second transaction related component. The transaction related message indicates a request by the second transaction related component to perform a transaction related operation that is to involve the first transaction related component. The first transaction related component authenticates the second transaction related component. The first transaction related component refers to transaction control information indicating roles the second transaction component is permitted to assume relative to the first transaction related component. The transaction related operation indicated in the request is compared to the permitted roles for the second transaction related component. The transaction related operation is implemented in accordance with the results of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tirunelveli Vishwanath, Max A. Feingold, James E. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7730487
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing ambient state among multiple transaction managers. A coordinating transaction manager establishes transaction ambient state for an application initiated transaction. The coordinating transaction manager sends and a subordinate transaction manager receives a pointer to an ambient state delegate. The subordinate transaction manager sends a request to invoke the ambient state delegate to the coordinating transaction manager in response to receiving an operation. The coordinating transaction manager invokes the ambient state delegate to format the transaction ambient state for the subordinate transaction manager. The coordinating transaction manager sends and the subordinate transaction manager receives the formatted transaction ambient state such that the subordinate transaction manager can appropriately process the operation within the scope of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William James Carley, James Ernest Johnson, John David Doty, Jonathan Morell Cargille, Kapil Gupta, Max A. Feingold, Michael R. Clark
  • Patent number: 7613814
    Abstract: Discovering transaction managers participating in a transaction. A method may be practiced, for example, in a commit tree topology including a number of transaction managers to manage transactions. The transactions include a set of operations that are all performed if a transaction is completed or all aborted if a transaction is not completed. The transaction managers store transaction result information to allow recovery of a transaction in case of system failure. The method includes receiving at a first transaction manager, a token from a second transaction manager on a machine external to the first transaction manager. The token specifies that the first transaction manager is the originator of the token. The token is associated with a transaction. The first transaction manager identifies that it has not previously participated in the transaction associated with the token. A transaction manager is identified that is participating in the transaction associated with the token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Cargille, Kapil Gupta, Max A. Feingold, Michael R. Clark
  • Publication number: 20070294412
    Abstract: Discovering transaction managers participating in a transaction. A method may be practiced, for example, in a commit tree topology including a number of transaction managers to manage transactions. The transactions include a set of operations that are all performed if a transaction is completed or all aborted if a transaction is not completed. The transaction managers store transaction result information to allow recovery of a transaction in case of system failure. The method includes receiving at a first transaction manager, a token from a second transaction manager on a machine external to the first transaction manager. The token specifies that the first transaction manager is the originator of the token. The token is associated with a transaction. The first transaction manager identifies that it has not previously participated in the transaction associated with the token. A transaction manager is identified that is participating in the transaction associated with the token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Cargille, Kapil Gupta, Max A. Feingold, Michael R. Clark