Patents by Inventor Ramachandran Venkatesh
Ramachandran Venkatesh 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).
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Patent number: 7596576Abstract: A database system and method allows a user to write program code in a high-level programming language that implements a class that defines the structure of a user-defined type and methods that can be invoked on instances of the type. The class is then registered with the database system, which enforces a specific contract for user-defined types against the class. The contract comprises the following requirements. First, the class must specify one of a plurality of different formats for persisting instances of the user-defined type in a database store. Second, the class must be capable of returning a null value for the user-defined type. Third, the class must provide a method for converting the user-defined type to another type. Once these requirements are satisfied, the database system enables instances of the user-defined type to be created. A user-defined type can be used in all contexts where any other built-in type can be used.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2005Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ramachandran Venkatesh, Jun Fang, Jose A. Blakeley, Beysim Sezgin, Balaji Rathakrishnan, Peter A. Carlin
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Patent number: 7555506Abstract: Systems and methodologies of partially deserializing a Complex Type Object, via a deserializer that intercepts and materializes such object on demand. The object or a subset thereof can be deserialized to produce an Instance of Complex Type that is implemented by a property store. The deserializer can include an analyzer component that analyzes the Property Store.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ramachandran Venkatesh, Denis Y Altudov, Beysim Sezgin, Jose A Blakeley
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Patent number: 7539688Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a database with an extensible type system for at least one user-defined type that comprises information for describing its structure as well as information for describing an inheritance relationship between itself and another user-defined type (either a subtype or a supertype/base type). For certain embodiments, the user-defined type is defined in something other than Sequential Query Language (SQL) statement such as, for example, a Common Language Runtime (CLR) statement, a statement in C, C++, and C# (“C-sharp”), and/or a visual basic statement. In any event, several embodiments are further directed to a system wherein the database is aware of the inheritance relationship between two user-defined types by an explicit registration of the user-defined types with said database.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2004Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Beysim Sezgin, Denis Y. Altudov, Jose A. Blakeley, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Wei Yu
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Patent number: 7516143Abstract: Efficient hierarchical searching is based on object type. By pre-computing additional information and storing it in a fast-lookup structure, it is possible to quickly identify objects that satisfy an object retrieval request. Furthermore, it is also possible to use this technique to avoid object hydration for operations in the store. Moreover, it is possible to leverage database statistical structures such as histograms to estimate the number of qualifying objects without having to examine each object.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2005Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Conor J. Cunningham, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Eric N. Hanson
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Patent number: 7480646Abstract: Efficient hierarchical searching is based on object type. By pre-computing additional information and storing it in a fast-lookup structure, it is possible to quickly identify objects that satisfy an object retrieval request. Furthermore, it is also possible to use this technique to avoid object hydration for operations in the store. Moreover, it is possible to leverage database statistical structures such as histograms to estimate the number of qualifying objects without having to examine each object.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Conor J. Cunningham, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Eric N. Hanson
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Publication number: 20080288625Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates configuring at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) device. An RFID network can include at least one device associated with a device group, wherein the device group corresponds to a characteristic. An organizational manager can uniformly configure the at least one device based at least in part upon membership of the device group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Anush Kumar, Balasubramanian Sriram, Bhuvanesh Jain, Jayaram Kalyana Sundaram, Krishnan Gopalan, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Patent number: 7437371Abstract: Several embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for extending the UDT framework of an extended relational data store (ERDS) to include support for unordered collections (multisets) and ordered collection (lists). More specifically, several embodiments of the present invention use an UDT infrastructure, CLR generics, and a new UNNEST operator to create and utilize a special type abstraction for collections that is simultaneously a scalar and a relation. As a scalar, this collection type can be processed by all parts of the data store engine that understand scalars (including but not limited to the client stack) and, as a relation, this collection type is queriable like any other type of relation.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Balaji Rathakrishnan, Beysim Sezgin, Denis Y. Altudov, Jose A. Blakeley, Oliver Nicholas Seeliger, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Wei Yu, Dragan Tomic, Denis Churin, Bruno H. M. Denuit, Conor J. Cunningham, Stefano Stefani
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Publication number: 20080238618Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates verifying data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) business process. A radio frequency identification (RFID) business process can include at least one component that can receive an event from a logical source. A strong typing module can employ strong typing of the component to define at least one of an event type for the component, an input event type for the component, or an output event type for the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Janaki Ram Goteti, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Publication number: 20080184151Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing a device within a radio frequency identification (RFID) network. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. An upgrade component can evaluate at least one device and identify an applicable portion of firmware for the device based on the evaluation, wherein the applicable portion of firmware can be independently deployed to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Krishnan Gopalan, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed, Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram, Anush Kumar
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Patent number: 7379927Abstract: Efficient hierarchical searching is based on object type. By pre-computing additional information and storing it in a fast-lookup structure, it is possible to quickly identify objects that satisfy an object retrieval request. Furthermore, it is also possible to use this technique to avoid object hydration for operations in the store. Moreover, it is possible to leverage database statistical structures such as histograms to estimate the number of qualifying objects without having to examine each object.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2005Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Conor J. Cunningham, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Eric N. Hanson
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Patent number: 7378966Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates configuring at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) device. An RFID network can include at least one device associated with a device group, wherein the device group corresponds to a characteristic. An organizational manager can uniformly configure the at least one device based at least in part upon membership of the device group.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2006Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Anush Kumar, Balasubramanian Sriram, Bhuvanesh Jain, Jayaram Kalyana Sundaram, Krishnan Gopalan, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Patent number: 7376656Abstract: A database system and method allows a user to write program code in a high-level programming language that implements a class that defines the structure of a user-defined aggregate and methods that can be invoked on instances of the user-defined aggregate. The class is then registered with the database system, which enforces a specific contract for user-defined aggregates against the class. The contract comprises the following requirements. First, the class must specify one of a plurality of different formats for persisting instances of the user-defined aggregate in a database store. Second, the class must comprise certain specified methods that can be invoked on an instance of the class. Once these requirements are satisfied, the database system enables instances of the user-defined aggregate to be created. Preferably, the database system stores metadata about the user-defined aggregate for subsequent use in creating instances of the aggregate.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jose A. Blakeley, Hongang Zhang, Balaji Rathakrishnan, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Beysim Sezgin, Alexios Boukouvalas, Cesar A. Galindo-Legaria, Peter A. Carlin
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Patent number: 7356546Abstract: A new persistence format for storing objects of a user defined type in a database store enables information about the structure of the type to be communicated to the store. This information enables a number of store optimizations, including direct structural access to members of the type. Specifically, metadata is exchanged between the type implementer and the data store. The store uses the metadata to determine the storage layout for instances of the type. With this information, the store is able to detect access patterns that can be optimized to directly operate over the storage representation without hydration (deserialization) the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ramachandran Venkatesh, Beysim Sezgin, Jose A. Blakeley, Denis Y. Altudov
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Patent number: 7325007Abstract: A database API is presented that can expose data of non-native data-types, i.e., types that are unknown at API design-time. A broad type-system is used that is understood by both a server and a client. The API can dynamically discover, at run-time, data types that were defined using this broad type-system. The API can retrieve metadata that references a non-native data type in a client type library. A retrieved instance of the non-native data type, in serialized form, may be deserialized using the metadata.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Pablo Castro, Blaine Dockter, Kawarjit Singh Bedi, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Publication number: 20080001712Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing communication channels within a radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that can receive data from a tag. A mixed mode component can employ a synchronous command and an asynchronous event processing with the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Anush Kumar, Balasubramanian Sriram, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed, Janaki Ram Goteti, Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram, Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Publication number: 20080001711Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing reliability associated with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. An RFID network can include at least one device that wirelessly receives data from a tag. A provider component can have a dedicated execution space independent of an RFID server within a host allowing communication to at least one device within the RFID network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Anush Kumar, Balasubramanian Sriram, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed, Janaki Ram Goteti, Jayaram Kalyana Sundaram, Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Publication number: 20080001710Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates receiving data from at least one device. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A batcher component can collect the data based on a start boundary and an end boundary and communicate the batched data to an RFID process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Anush Kumar, Balasubramanian Sriram, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed, Janaki Ram Goteti, Jayaram Kalyana Sundaram, Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi, Ramachandran Venkatesh
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Publication number: 20080001709Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates ensuring reliable data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A distribute component can initiate a reliable transaction with the received data to ensure at least one subscribing RFID process utilizes such data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Ramachandran Venkatesh, Abhishek Agarwal, Anush Kumar, Balasubramanian Sriram, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed, Janaki Ram Goteti, Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram, Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi
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Patent number: 7308460Abstract: A database system and method allows a user to write program code in a high-level programming language that implements a class that defines the structure of a user-defined type and methods that can be invoked on instances of the type. The class is then registered with the database system, which enforces a specific contract for user-defined types against the class. The contract comprises the following requirements. First, the class must specify one of a plurality of different formats for persisting instances of the user-defined type in a database store. Second, the class must be capable of returning a null value for the user-defined type. Third, the class must provide a method for converting the user-defined type to another type. Once these requirements are satisfied, the database system enables instances of the user-defined type to be created. A user-defined type can be used in all contexts where any other built-in type can be used.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2004Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ramachandran Venkatesh, Jun Fang, Jose A. Blakeley, Beysim Sezgin, Balaji Rathakrishnan, Peter A. Carlin
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Patent number: 7295116Abstract: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates employing a model based at least upon a framework, wherein the model can be utilized to build an RFID application. A receiver component can receive data, wherein a model component can create a model based at least in part upon the received data that facilitates creating and/or executing the RFID application. The framework can be, but is not limited to, an entity, a framework class, a hierarchical framework of at least one class, an interface, an exception, a component architecture, a schema, an object model, and/or an API (Application Programming Interface). The model can be utilized to create, deploy, manage, and/or execute the RFID application to provide a generic operation and/or a business specific scenario.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Anush Kumar, Janaki Ram Goteti, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed, Abhishek Agarwal, Balasubramanian Sriram, Ramachandran Venkatesh