Patents by Inventor Safa Alikashani

Safa Alikashani 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).

  • Failure detection and reporting for a computer mail gateway
    Patent number: 5644706
    Abstract: Failure detection and reporting for a computer mail gateway is provided. In a preferred embodiment, two computer mail systems are connected by a gateway. The gateway includes an automatic gateway failure detection and reporting facility. The gateway also includes a message transfer store. The facility transmits a message from the first mail system into the message transfer store for retrieval by the second mail system. The facility then detects that the transmitted message from the first mail system has remained in the message transfer store for at least a predetermined time without being retrieved by the second mail system. In response to detecting that the transmitted message from the first mail system has remained in the message transfer store for at least a predetermined time without being retrieved by the second mail system, the facility diagnoses the failure of the gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Ruigrok, Geoffrey G. Kratz, Andrew John Wallace, Neil Karl Koorland, James Ross, Safa Alikashani, Marcel Laforce