Patents by Inventor Sadek A. Noureddine

Sadek A. Noureddine 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).

  • Extensible and generic framework for managing resources for data warehousing loads
    Patent number: 9229949
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for managing resources. A request is received for a plurality of resources from a requester. A ticket is generated for the request that indicates the resources. For each resource, a resource provider for the resource is queried to determine whether the resource can be acquired. The ticket is queued if any of the resources cannot be acquired. The ticket is granted if all of the resources can be acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Sadek Noureddine
  • Injecting faults into program for testing software
    Patent number: 8752027
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to injecting faults into programs for testing. In aspects, a program is instrumented with instrumentation points. A request that an exception be raised at an instrumentation point is received. In response, a sink is configured to listen for the event associated with the instrumentation point. The sink is further configured to cause the exception to be raised to the program in response to receiving the event. The exception may be raised without modifying code of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sadek A. Noureddine, Artem Yegorov
  • EXTENSIBLE AND GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING RESOURCES FOR DATA WAREHOUSING LOADS
    Publication number: 20130091089
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for managing resources. A request is received for a plurality of resources from a requester. A ticket is generated for the request that indicates the resources. For each resource, a resource provider for the resource is queried to determine whether the resource can be acquired. The ticket is queued if any of the resources cannot be acquired. The ticket is granted if all of the resources can be acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sadek Noureddine
  • INJECTING FAULTS INTO PROGRAM FOR TESTING
    Publication number: 20130067439
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to injecting faults into programs for testing. In aspects, a program is instrumented with instrumentation points. A request that an exception be raised at an instrumentation point is received. In response, a sink is configured to listen for the event associated with the instrumentation point. The sink is further configured to cause the exception to be raised to the program in response to receiving the event. The exception may be raised without modifying code of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadek A. Noureddine, Artem Yegorov