Patents by Inventor Steve Menzies

Steve Menzies 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).

  • Patent number: 8745489
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide for a sending side with enough intelligence to isolate each command, examine it, perform some levels of validation, and deliver a structured representation of the command to the remote processor before doing any network operations. More specifically, embodiments herein provided for a mechanism of identifying a command and encapsulating the command into a single message (e.g., a SOAP, HTTPS, or other type message), which is then sent to a remote shell for processing as an entire unit. Accordingly, embodiments herein treat the command as a single unit, rather than as a character-oriented transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond W. McCollum, Alexander Nosov, Vishwajith Kumbalimutt, Steve Menzies, Stephen Wah Lee
  • Patent number: 8090838
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide also provide for some special cases of asynchronous control signals that change the shell operation flow. For example, signal messages may be used to terminate, pause, resume, or otherwise modify the execution of a command. In other words, if a user wishes to change the execution state of a command, a client can create a signal message and send such message to the shell processor, which can take the appropriate action as desired. Note that by modeling the control or signal commands as discrete messages (as well as other embodiments modeled and described herein), such commands are not mistakenly executed on a command as is the case for current protocols that use a character-by-character transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond W. McCollum, Alexander Nosov, Vishwajith Kumbalimutt, Steve Menzies, Stephen Wah Lee
  • Publication number: 20100250730
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are described that perform automated license reconciliation for deployed applications. The applications may be deployed among a plurality of computers. Agents are deployed on respective computers to determine the deployed applications. The agents further determine licensable software product identifiers corresponding to the respective instances of the applications. A license data source module provides entitlements corresponding to respective license agreement(s). A reconciliation module matches the entitlements to the instances of the applications to determine whether the instances of the applications are in compliance with the license agreement(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steve Menzies, Bhavini Soneji, Ashutosh Badwe, Erik Hedberg
  • Publication number: 20070192503
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide for a sending side with enough intelligence to isolate each command, examine it, perform some levels of validation, and deliver a structured representation of the command to the remote processor before doing any network operations. More specifically, embodiments herein provided for a mechanism of identifying a command and encapsulating the command into a single message (e.g., a SOAP, HTTPS, or other type message), which is then sent to a remote shell for processing as an entire unit. Accordingly, embodiments herein treat the command as a single unit, rather than as a character-oriented transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond W. McCollum, Alexander Nosov, Vishwajith Kumbalimutt, Steve Menzies, Stephen Wah Lee
  • Publication number: 20070192773
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide also provide for some special cases of asynchronous control signals that change the shell operation flow. For example, signal messages may be used to terminate, pause, resume, or otherwise modify the execution of a command. In other words, if a user wishes to change the execution state of a command, a client can create a signal message and send such message to the shell processor, which can take the appropriate action as desired. Note that by modeling the control or signal commands as discrete messages (as well as other embodiments modeled and described herein), such commands are not mistakenly executed on a command as is the case for current protocols that use a character-by-character transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond W. McCollum, Alexander Nosov, Vishwajith Kumbalimutt, Steve Menzies, Stephen Wah Lee