Patents by Inventor Nathan James Fink

Nathan James Fink 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: 8645406
    Abstract: A fallback query mechanism that serves as a way to recover from query conditions (or criteria) that break due to excessively large result sets relative to a preset threshold. The fallback query mechanism detects when a query has failed to execute because the query requested more items from the database (or list) than allowed by the threshold, rewrites the query to examine no more than the threshold number of most recently created items that match one of the indexed filter criteria specified in a view, and then applies one or more of the other filter criteria. The mechanism then reruns the query and displays the results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lincoln DeMaris, Anthony Lawrence Jackson, Dustin Friesenhahn, Nathan James Fink
  • Patent number: 7890643
    Abstract: A system for providing a client's credentials to a computer program comprises a database remote from the client and a single signon server module. The single signon server module can receive a request for the client's credentials from the computer program, determine whether the client's credentials are stored in the database, and send the client's credentials from the database to the computer program in response to a determination that the client's credentials are stored in the database. The single signon server module can store the client's credentials in the database in response to a determination that the client's credentials are not stored in the database. The single signon server module can encrypt the client's credentials prior to storing the client's credentials in the database and can decrypt the client's credentials prior to sending the client's credentials to the computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dean Jason Justus, Josh D. Benaloh, Nathan James Fink, Michael Howard, Daniel R. Simon, Matthew W. Thomlinson
  • Patent number: 7627592
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transforming a document to a web page can include a mapping module programmed to map document styles of a document to styles of a web page. The system can also include a conversion module programmed to convert contents of the document into hypertext markup language based on the map of the mapping module, and a rendering module programmed to render the web page based on the hypertext markup language. A method can include mapping document styles in a document to styles of a web page, converting contents of the document into hypertext markup language based on the mapping, and rendering the web page based on the hypertext markup language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sterling John Crockett, Nathan James Fink, William James Griffin, Bruce Arville Jones, George Perantatos, Ryan Robert Stocker
  • Publication number: 20090259624
    Abstract: A fallback query mechanism that serves as a way to recover from query conditions (or criteria) that break due to excessively large result sets relative to a preset threshold. The fallback query mechanism detects when a query has failed to execute because the query requested more items from the database (or list) than allowed by the threshold, rewrites the query to examine no more than the threshold number of most recently created items that match one of the indexed filter criteria specified in a view, and then applies one or more of the other filter criteria. The mechanism then reruns the query and displays the results to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lincoln DeMaris, Anthony Lawrence Jackson, Dustin Friesenhahn, Nathan James Fink
  • Publication number: 20090164795
    Abstract: A system for providing a client's credentials to a computer program comprises a database remote from the client and a single signon server module. The single signon server module can receive a request for the client's credentials from the computer program, determine whether the client's credentials are stored in the database, and send the client's credentials from the database to the computer program in response to a determination that the client's credentials are stored in the database. The single signon server module can store the client's credentials in the database in response to a determination that the client's credentials are not stored in the database. The single signon server module can encrypt the client's credentials prior to storing the client's credentials in the database and can decrypt the client's credentials prior to sending the client's credentials to the computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dean Jason Justus, Josh D. Benaloh, Nathan James Fink, Michael Howard, Daniel R. Simon, Matthew William Thomlinson
  • Patent number: 7444597
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer-readable media are provided for organizing links on a web page via drag and drop operations. Single web page links or groups of web page links may be dragged from one location on a web page to another location on a web page or to another group of links on the web page. Links may also be dragged from a first web page or first client application document and may be dropped to a second web page on a same or separate web browsing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: George Perantatos, Christopher Edward White, Boxin Li, Nathan James Fink
  • Publication number: 20040003081
    Abstract: A system for providing a client's credentials to a computer program comprises a database remote from the client and a single signon server module. The single signon server module can receive a request for the client's credentials from the computer program, determine whether the client's credentials are stored in the database, and send the client's credentials from the database to the computer program in response to a determination that the client's credentials are stored in the database. The single signon server module can store the client's credentials in the database in response to a determination that the client's credentials are not stored in the database. The single signon server module can encrypt the client's credentials prior to storing the client's credentials in the database and can decrypt the client's credentials prior to sending the client's credentials to the computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dean Jason Justus, Josh D. Benaloh, Nathan James Fink, Michael Howard, Daniel R. Simon, Matthew William Thomlinson