Patents by Inventor Sean M. McKenna

Sean M. McKenna 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).

  • Application dehydration and rehydration during application-to-application calls
    Patent number: 9760417
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable a first application (i.e., a caller application) to call a second application (i.e., a callee application) to perform a function in a manner such that the first application may be dehydrated during the call. Dehydrating includes terminating execution of an instance of the first application, and freeing memory space in a memory of a mobile device that stored the instance of the first application. In such case, the second application may be active while the first application is no longer present in memory. The second application is enabled to respond to the call, causing the first application to be rehydrated. The first application continues execution at a location where the first application was dehydrated, and receives the response to the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John E. Gallardo, Arunjeet Singh, Abolade Gbadegesin, Sean M. McKenna, Akhilesh Kaza, Andrew Clinick
  • APPLICATION DEHYDRATION AND REHYDRATION DURING APPLICATION-TO-APPLICATION CALLS
    Publication number: 20150254119
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable a first application (i.e., a caller application) to call a second application (i.e., a callee application) to perform a function in a manner such that the first application may be dehydrated during the call. In such case, the second application may be active while the first application is no longer present. The second application is enabled to respond to the call, causing the first application to be rehydrated. The first application continues execution at a location where the first application was dehydrated, and receives the response to the response to the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: John E. Gallardo, Arunjeet Singh, Abolade Gbadegesin, Sean M. McKenna, Akhilesh Kaza, Andrew Clinick