Patents by Inventor Stephen Millet

Stephen Millet 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 Program Interface for Network Software Platform
    Publication number: 20070100967
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Smith, Anthony Moore, David Ebbo, Erik Christensen, Erik Olsen, Fabio Yeon, Jayanth Rajan, Keith Ballinger, Manu Vasandani, Mark Anders, Mark Boulter, Nikhil Kothari, Robert Howard, Scott Guthrie, Stephen Millet, Stefan Pharies, Suzanne Cook, Susan Warren, Yann Christensen
  • Virtual distributed security system
    Publication number: 20060253700
    Abstract: A distributed security system is provided. The distributed security system uses a security policy that is written in a policy language that is transport and security protocol independent as well as independent of cryptographic technologies. This security policy can be expressed using the language to create different security components allowing for greater scalability and flexibility. By abstracting underlying protocols and technologies, multiple environments and platforms can be supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Della-Libera, Christopher Kaler, Scott Konersmann, Butler Lampson, Paul Leach, Bradford Lovering, Steven Lucco, Stephen Millet, Richard Rashid, John Shewchuk
  • Virtual distributed security system
    Publication number: 20060253699
    Abstract: A distributed security system is provided. The distributed security system uses a security policy that is written in a policy language that is transport and security protocol independent as well as independent of cryptographic technologies. This security policy can be expressed using the language to create different security components allowing for greater scalability and flexibility. By abstracting underlying protocols and technologies, multiple environments and platforms can be supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Della-Libera, Christopher Kaler, Scott Konersmann, Butler Lampson, Paul Leach, Bradford Lovering, Steven Lucco, Stephen Millet, Richard Rashid, John Shewchuk
  • Policy algebra and compatibility model
    Publication number: 20060230432
    Abstract: The present invention provide for an algebraic mapping of a policy expression from a compact to a normalized form, both in Boolean and set formulations. The policy algebra is defined in such a way that policy alternatives within the normalized expression will be the same across equivalent compact expressions—regardless of how the assertions are arbitrarily constrained or what operators are used to constrain such equivalent expressions. Moreover, the present invention also provides a model for identifying alternatives that are equivalent by comparing only the root element names or QName of each assertion within an alternative. In addition, embodiments as described herein can utilize the identification of equivalent alternatives in order to create an intersection policy expression to limit alternatives of admissible behavior to those in common across both endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred Lee, Ashok Malhotra, Elliot Waingold, Jeffrey Schlimmer, Stephen Millet
  • Mapping between object oriented and service oriented representations of a distributed application
    Publication number: 20060179146
    Abstract: The present invention extends to mapping between object oriented and service oriented representations of a distributed application. A computer system accesses an annotated object oriented representation of a service, which is annotated with service description attributes mapping included objects to corresponding service oriented elements in a service oriented representation of the service. The computer system identifies a service description attribute that annotates an object of the annotated object oriented representation. The computer system maps the object to a corresponding service oriented element in accordance with service description information contained in the identified service description attribute. The computer system outputs a channel object configured to implements behaviors and data formats described in the service oriented representations. The computer system initiates a channel that is compatible with behaviors and data formats of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Marucheck, Ryan Sturgell, Eric Zinda, Alex DeJarnatt, Jesus Scougall, Stephen Swartz, Stephen Millet
  • Utilizing abstract descriptions to generate, exchange, and configure service and client runtimes
    Publication number: 20060179425
    Abstract: The present invention extends utilizing abstract descriptions to generate, exchange, and configure service and client runtimes. A computer system parses compiled code and potentially optional configuration information for implementing a service and converts the compiled code and any configuration information into an abstract service description. The abstract service description can then be converted into code document object model and service configuration information or exported as metadata. A corresponding service runtime can be initiated by calling a service initializer included in the abstract service description. The code document object model and configuration information and/or metadata can be transferred to another computer system. The other computer system can utilize the code document object model and configuration information and/or import the metadata to facilitate initialization of a compatible channel for communicating with the service runtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Scougall, Ryan Sturgell, Michael Marucheck, Alex DeJarnatt, Stephen Swartz, Michael Vernal, Eric Zinda, Stephen Millet, David Wortendyke
  • System and method for building and using communication binding objects
    Publication number: 20060174016
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an automated, user friendly way of constructing and using a binding object. A developer is presenting and selects binding elements that will ultimately be used to create a runtime communication channel for transporting a message between a client and service endpoint. After receiving the user input, metadata, a channel factory and listener factory are created. The metadata describes binding elements and provides an abstract representation of a protocol stack that implements communication aspects at runtime. The channel factory is configured to use the collection of metadata at runtime to generate the runtime communication channel. Further, the listener factory is configured to accept the runtime communication channel for de-multiplex the communication aspects in order to process the message at a service endpoint. The present invention also provides for groupings of binding elements and standardized binging objects organized based on industry need.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Critchley, David Wortendyke, Elliot Waingold, Eric Zinda, Erik Christensen, Giovanni Della-Libera, Kenneth Wolf, Michael Vernal, Shy Cohen, Stefan Pharies, Stephen Millet, Stephen Swartz, Tomasz Janczuk, Uday Hegde, Yaniv Pessach
  • Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services
    Publication number: 20060150200
    Abstract: A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shy Cohen, Geary Eppley, Douglas Purdy, James Johnson, Stephen Millet, Stephen Swartz, Vijay Gajjala, Aaron Stern, Alexander DeJarnatt, Alfred Lee, Anand Rjagopalan, Anastasios Kasiolas, Chaitanya Upadhyay, Christopher Kaler, Craig Critchley, David Levin, David Driver, David Wortendyke, Douglas Walter, Elliot Waingold, Erik Christensen, Erin Honeycutt, Eugene Shvets, Evgeny Osovetsky, Giovanni Della-Libera, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, John Doty, Jonathan Wheeler, Kapil Gupta, Kenneth Wolf, Krishnan Srinivasan, Lance Olson, Matthew Tavis, Mauro Ottaviani, Max Feingold, Michael Coulson, Michael Marucheck, Michael Vernal, Michael Dice, Mohamed-Hany Ramadan, Mohammad Makarechian, Natasha Jethanandani, Richard Dievendorff, Richard Hill, Ryan Sturgell, Saurab Nog, Scott Seely, Serge Sverdlov, Siddhartha Puri, Sowmyanarayanan Srinivasan, Stefan Batres, Stefan Pharies, Tirunelveli Vishwanath, Tomasz Janczuk, Uday Hegde, Umesh Madan, Vaithialingam Balayogan, Vipul Modi, Yaniv Pessach, Yasser Shohoud
  • Virtual distributed security system
    Publication number: 20060041743
    Abstract: A distributed security system is provided. The distributed security system uses a security policy that is written in a policy language that is transport and security protocol independent as well as independent of cryptographic technologies. This security policy can be expressed using the language to create different security components allowing for greater scalability and flexibility. By abstracting underlying protocols and technologies, multiple environments and platforms can be supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Della-Libera, Christopher Kaler, Scott Konersmann, Butler Lampson, Paul Leach, Bradford Lovering, Steven Lucco, Stephen Millet, Richard Rashid, John Shewchuk
  • Virtual distributed security system
    Publication number: 20060041929
    Abstract: A distributed security system is provided. The distributed security system uses a security policy that is written in a policy language that is transport and security protocol independent as well as independent of cryptographic technologies. This security policy can be expressed using the language to create different security components allowing for greater scalability and flexibility. By abstracting underlying protocols and technologies, multiple environments and platforms can be supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Della-Libera, Christopher Kaler, Scott Konersmann, Butler Lampson, Paul Leach, Bradford Lovering, Steven Lucco, Stephen Millet, Richard Rashid, John Shewchuk
  • Postback input handling by server-side control objects
    Publication number: 20060004910
    Abstract: One or more server-side control objects provide server-side processing of postback input received from client-side user interface elements in a request from a client. Such input may include without limitation postback data and postback events generated from a web page on a client and received by a server in an HTTP request. A hierarchy of server-side control objects can cooperate to process the postback input and to generate the resulting authoring language code, such as HTML. Server-side events can also result from the server-side processing of postback input. In addition to processing postback input, server-side processing may include, without limitation, state management of server-side control objects and binding data to and from server-side database. After the processing and generating operations, the server-side control object hierarchy is terminated until a subsequent request is received from the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Burd, Kenneth Cooper, Scott Guthrie, David Ebbo, Mark Anders, Ted Peters, Stephen Millet
  • Transporting objects between a client and a server
    Publication number: 20050060718
    Abstract: An environment for developing clientside/serverside code is disclosed. The environment supports the perception that the server space and client space are seamlessly joined into a single program execution space. An outgrowth of the single execution space includes effective event handling on the server through enabling created objects to migrate effectively between the server and client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Lindhorst, Stephen Millet, John Shewchuk, John Buehler
  • Server-side control objects for processing client-side user interface elements
    Publication number: 20050050164
    Abstract: A server-side control object processes and generates a client-side user interface element for display on a web page. Multiple server-side control objects may be combined into a hierarchy of server-side control objects that cooperate to generate the resulting authoring language code, such as HTML, for display of a web page on a client. The operation of processing the client-side user interface element may include at least one of an event handling operation, a postback data handling operation, a data binding operation, and a state management operation. The state management operation relates to the state of a server-side control object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Gary Burd, Kenneth Cooper, Scott Guthrie, David Ebbo, Mark Anders, Ted Peters, Stephen Millet
  • System for converting event-driven code into serially executed code
    Publication number: 20050010910
    Abstract: An environment for developing clientside/serverside code is disclosed. The environment supports programming in an event-driven paradigm while the execution of the resultant programs are executed in a serial execution paradigm. Through shielding the developer from complex scripting segments, the environment provides the developer with the suggestion that that resultant execution model is event-driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corp.
    Inventors: Gregory Lindhorst, Stephen Millet, John Shewchuk