Patents by Inventor Peter Adam Outcalt

Peter Adam Outcalt 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: 11226985
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of partitioned data storage spaces is provided herein. An exemplary method includes storing sets of structured data records among partitioned data storage spaces, with data fields of the structured data records correlated among the sets by relational associations. The method includes, in a data center that receives change actions related to the structured data records, selectively placing the change actions into a plurality of change feeds, where the change feeds can be commutatively executed in parallel to implement the change actions. The method further includes implementing the change actions and propagating replication data comprising the change actions in the plurality of change feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt, Tarkan Sevilmis, Andre Makram
  • Patent number: 11138224
    Abstract: An intelligent conflict detection system. The system provides semantic expression of edits and history-aware conflict detection in a large-scale service allowing multiple users to simultaneously work with the same document, which may result in conflicting edits. When submitted, changes to a version of a document are compared to all versions of the document created since the document was sourced. Edits to documents are expressed as intents describing the changes in terms of an action and object of that action based on a characteristic of the data being edited. Comparing the intent of current edits against the historical intent of the edits made in prior versions originating from the same source document allows the system to intelligently assess whether the edits are in conflict. History-aware semantic analysis results in users being prompted less frequently to resolve conflicts, which improves the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Arshish C. Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Marius Bunescu, Ryan Yandle
  • Patent number: 10599676
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of redundant data storage centers is provided herein. An exemplary method includes redundantly storing data records across the redundant data storage centers, with a first data storage center operating as a primary data storage center configured to respond to at least user input related to the data records. The method includes placing the first data storage center into an intermediate mode which comprises ceasing response to the user input by the first data storage center and executing pending operations related to previous user input received by the first data storage center, and designating the second data storage center as the primary data storage center configured to respond to at least further user input related to the data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt, Paul Gaston Shealy
  • Patent number: 10318618
    Abstract: A consistent user view system. The system incorporates any changes made by a user in any views shown to that user even when the changes have not propagated to the partitions supplying the view. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. Documents are read from view-based partitions of a store. Document writes are written to a document-specific partition in a journal and applied to the store. The system stores a copy of pending changes in a user-specific partition. When a user requests a view, the system checks that user's cache for any pending changes applicable to the view. If any applicable changes are found, the changes are applied before showing the view to the user. Pending changes that have been successfully applied to the store are trimmed from the user-specific partition to free up resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tarkan Sevilmis, Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt
  • Patent number: 10275435
    Abstract: A consistent user view system. The system incorporates any changes made by a user in any views shown to that user even when the changes have not propagated to the partitions supplying the view. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. Documents are read from view-based partitions of a store. Document writes are written to a document-specific partition in a journal and applied to the store. The system stores a copy of pending changes in a user-specific partition. When a user requests a view, the system checks that user's cache for any pending changes applicable to the view. If any applicable changes are found, the changes are applied before showing the view to the user. Pending changes that have been successfully applied to the store are trimmed from the user-specific partition to free up resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tarkan Sevilmis, Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt
  • Patent number: 10248709
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of partitioned data storage spaces are provided herein. An exemplary method includes storing sets of structured data records among partitioned data storage spaces, with data fields of the structured data records correlated among the sets by relational associations. The method includes maintaining data fields in a first set of structured data records, the data fields comprising promoted data fields that reference properties of data fields of a second set of structured data records. Responsive to an update to a data field of a first structured data record, the method includes determining if the update relates to a promoted data field, implementing a portion of the update in the second set of structured data records, and propagating the update to associated promoted data fields in the first set of structured data records along with any intervening changes received for the associated promoted data fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tittu Jose, Arshish Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Colin Daniel Eugene Jeanne
  • Patent number: 10235406
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of partitioned data storage spaces is provided herein. An exemplary method includes storing sets of structured data records among partitioned data storage spaces, with data fields of the structured data records correlated among the sets by relational associations. The method includes receiving a change action related to a selected structured data record, and responsive to the change action, scheduling execution of the change action in a reminder index. The method includes executing the change action according to at least scheduling indicated by the reminder index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tittu Jose, Arshish Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Michael T. McLean
  • Patent number: 10210171
    Abstract: A scalable eventual consistency system. The system uses logical document journaling to provide eventual consistency across partitions in a large-scale service. The system allows for transactional edits to massively interconnected graphs of documents through parallelization without sacrificing linear scalability. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. All document writes are written to document-specific partitions in a journal where they are queued until the changes are propagated to view-based partitions of a store. By continually checking the journal and attempting to replicate any pending document writes to the store, the system provides eventual consistency without complicated synchronization mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Adam Outcalt, Tarkan Sevilmis, Arshish Kapadia, Ryan Yandle
  • Publication number: 20170364573
    Abstract: An intelligent conflict detection system. The system provides semantic expression of edits and history-aware conflict detection in a large-scale service allowing multiple users to simultaneously work with the same document, which may result in conflicting edits. When submitted, changes to a version of a document are compared to all versions of the document created since the document was sourced. Edits to documents are expressed as intents describing the changes in terms of an action and object of that action based on a characteristic of the data being edited. Comparing the intent of current edits against the historical intent of the edits made in prior versions originating from the same source document allows the system to intelligently assess whether the edits are in conflict. History-aware semantic analysis results in users being prompted less frequently to resolve conflicts, which improves the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arshish C. KAPADIA, Tarkan SEVILMIS, Peter Adam OUTCALT, Marius BUNESCU, Ryan YANDLE
  • Patent number: 9785693
    Abstract: An intelligent conflict detection system. The system provides semantic expression of edits and history-aware conflict detection in a large-scale service allowing multiple users to simultaneously work with the same document, which may result in conflicting edits. When submitted, changes to a version of a document are compared to all versions of the document created since the document was sourced. Edits to documents are expressed as intents describing the changes in terms of an action and object of that action based on a characteristic of the data being edited. Comparing the intent of current edits against the historical intent of the edits made in prior versions originating from the same source document allows the system to intelligently assess whether the edits are in conflict. History-aware semantic analysis results in users being prompted less frequently to resolve conflicts, which improves the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arshish C. Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Marius Bunescu, Ryan Yandle
  • Publication number: 20170169091
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of partitioned data storage spaces is provided herein. An exemplary method includes storing sets of structured data records among partitioned data storage spaces, with data fields of the structured data records correlated among the sets by relational associations. The method includes, in a data center that receives change actions related to the structured data records, selectively placing the change actions into a plurality of change feeds, where the change feeds can be commutatively executed in parallel to implement the change actions. The method further includes implementing the change actions and propagating replication data comprising the change actions in the plurality of change feeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt, Tarkan Sevilmis, Andre Makram
  • Publication number: 20170169090
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of partitioned data storage spaces are provided herein. An exemplary method includes storing sets of structured data records among partitioned data storage spaces, with data fields of the structured data records correlated among the sets by relational associations. The method includes maintaining data fields in a first set of structured data records, the data fields comprising promoted data fields that reference properties of data fields of a second set of structured data records. Responsive to an update to a data field of a first structured data record, the method includes determining if the update relates to a promoted data field, implementing a portion of the update in the second set of structured data records, and propagating the update to associated promoted data fields in the first set of structured data records along with any intervening changes received for the associated promoted data fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Tittu Jose, Arshish Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Colin Daniel Eugene Jeanne
  • Publication number: 20170169067
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of partitioned data storage spaces is provided herein. An exemplary method includes storing sets of structured data records among partitioned data storage spaces, with data fields of the structured data records correlated among the sets by relational associations. The method includes receiving a change action related to a selected structured data record, and responsive to the change action, scheduling execution of the change action in a reminder index. The method includes executing the change action according to at least scheduling indicated by the reminder index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Tittu Jose, Arshish Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Michael T. McLean
  • Publication number: 20170169087
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for management of redundant data storage centers is provided herein. An exemplary method includes redundantly storing data records across the redundant data storage centers, with a first data storage center operating as a primary data storage center configured to respond to at least user input related to the data records. The method includes placing the first data storage center into an intermediate mode which comprises ceasing response to the user input by the first data storage center and executing pending operations related to previous user input received by the first data storage center, and designating the second data storage center as the primary data storage center configured to respond to at least further user input related to the data records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt, Paul Gaston Shealy
  • Publication number: 20150378972
    Abstract: An intelligent conflict detection system. The system provides semantic expression of edits and history-aware conflict detection in a large-scale service allowing multiple users to simultaneously work with the same document, which may result in conflicting edits. When submitted, changes to a version of a document are compared to all versions of the document created since the document was sourced. Edits to documents are expressed as intents describing the changes in terms of an action and object of that action based on a characteristic of the data being edited. Comparing the intent of current edits against the historical intent of the edits made in prior versions originating from the same source document allows the system to intelligently assess whether the edits are in conflict. History-aware semantic analysis results in users being prompted less frequently to resolve conflicts, which improves the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Arshish C. Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Peter Adam Outcalt, Marius Bunescu, Ryan Yandle
  • Publication number: 20150370767
    Abstract: A consistent user view system. The system incorporates any changes made by a user in any views shown to that user even when the changes have not propagated to the partitions supplying the view. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. Documents are read from view-based partitions of a store. Document writes are written to a document-specific partition in a journal and applied to the store. The system stores a copy of pending changes in a user-specific partition. When a user requests a view, the system checks that user's cache for any pending changes applicable to the view. If any applicable changes are found, the changes are applied before showing the view to the user. Pending changes that have been successfully applied to the store are trimmed from the user-specific partition to free up resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tarkan Sevilmis, Arshish Kapadia, Peter Adam Outcalt
  • Publication number: 20150370825
    Abstract: A scalable eventual consistency system. The system uses logical document journaling to provide eventual consistency across partitions in a large-scale service. The system allows for transactional edits to massively interconnected graphs of documents documents through parallelization without sacrificing linear scalability. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. All document writes are written to document-specific partitions in a journal where they are queued until the changes are propagated to view-based partitions of a store. By continually checking the journal and attempting to replicate any pending document writes to the store, the system provides eventual consistency without complicated synchronization mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Adam Outcalt, Tarkan Sevilmis, Arshish Kapadia, Ryan Yandle
  • Publication number: 20130117749
    Abstract: Platform management may be provided. First, a package may be received. The received package may then be separated into a plurality of deployment groups. Next, a plurality of tasks may be created for deploying the plurality of deployment groups. Then the plurality of tasks may be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A.J. Mechelke, Arshish Kapadia, Saji Varkey, Ryan David Yandle, Peter Adam Outcalt, Chandan Aggarwal, Howard M. Crow, Michael H. Ammerlaan, Gersh Payzer, Shailesh Panwar