Patents by Inventor Steve Jamieson

Steve Jamieson 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).

  • Component aliasing operating within a component-based computing system
    Patent number: 6687717
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a component-based computing system having programmable components and component aliases for identifying computing components for providing component addressing/identification and naming spaces is disclosed. The computing system has a partition activation control module for receiving a request to activate a component initiated by a calling component and activating an instance of the requested component, a permit object activation module for determining whether an instance of the requested component may be activated, a component object alias activation module for substituting a unique component class ID for a component alias class ID if the requested component corresponds to a component object alias, a system component catalog database for maintaining component object configuration data, and a component object activation module for activating the requested component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Keith S. Hamilton, Steve Jamieson, Joe D. Long, Paul M. Oeuvray