Patents by Inventor Travis Wright
Travis Wright 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).
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Publication number: 20140091502Abstract: The present invention provides a combination reforming/reducing shaft furnace for the production of direct reduced iron that utilizes one or more burden uniformity enhancers, such as one or more rotating/reciprocating mixing shafts, one or more stationary flow aids, one or more wall structures/variations, one or more agitators, or the like for ensuring that reforming and reducing in the shaft furnace take place evenly across the width of and throughout the depth of the burden in the shaft furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: MIDREX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Travis Wright, Steve Montague
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Patent number: 8656346Abstract: One or more available command units can be represented with a computer output device. The available command units can be command units from one or more snapins, such as one or more snapins that include command units to be run with a shell application. User input can be received from an input device, the user input selecting one or more selected command units of the available command units. In response to the user input, source code can be automatically generated from the one or more command units, and the source code can be automatically compiled to generate one or more workflow activities.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sai Gopal Kodi, Edhi Sarwono, Travis A. Wright, James W. Truher, Frank Zakrajsek
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Patent number: 8631463Abstract: Processes and techniques for tailoring operations management in a system are described. The processes and techniques allow a user to customize operations management based on the user's function within a system and the particular tasks that the user wishes to accomplish. Simplified user interfaces can be created by scoping the interfaces based on user profiles, preferences and system components.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marisol Ontaneda, Thomas W. Keane, Baelson B. Duque, Chandika Bhandari, Travis Wright, Vitaly Voloshin, Casey McKinnon
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Publication number: 20130283188Abstract: One exemplary embodiment uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed to a programmability layer and provides enough information that the programmability layer can construct the various monitors, rules, classes and tasks required to monitor the given service without further customization by the user. In one embodiment, the user can also customize the service definition, a desired, in order to obtain additional monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Chandika Bhandari, Lorenzo Rizzi, Stephen O. Wilson, Travis A. Wright, Vitaly V. Filimonov, Vitaly Voloshin
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Publication number: 20130246780Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scopes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda
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Patent number: 8386653Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scope.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice
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Patent number: 8326874Abstract: An authorization system determines a user's permission to access an object implicitly based on relationships in a data-driven model. The system provides the ability to mark a relationship type in the model between one object class (accessor) and another object class (accessed) as an implicit authorization relationship type. A user can define the permissions granted to the accessor object on the accessed object. When an accessor object tries to access a related accessed object over an authorization relationship type, the authorization system determines the permissions granted by inspecting the implicit authorization relationship type definition. The authorization system can also traverse containment relationship types to grant objects permissions contained by other objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis A. Wright, Varsha Jayasimha
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Publication number: 20110258698Abstract: Processes and techniques for tailoring operations management in a system are described. The processes and techniques allow a user to customize operations management based on the user's function within a system and the particular tasks that the user wishes to accomplish. Simplified user interfaces can be created by scoping the interfaces based on user profiles, preferences and system components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marisol Ontaneda, Thomas W. Keane, Baelson B. Duque, Chandika Bhandari, Travis Wright, Vitaly Voloshin, Casey McKinnon
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Patent number: 7979893Abstract: Processes and techniques for tailoring operations management in a system are described. The processes and techniques allow a user to customize operations management based on the user's function within a system and the particular tasks that the user wishes to accomplish. Simplified user interfaces can be created by scoping the interfaces based on user profiles, preferences and system components.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marisol Ontaneda, Thomas W. Keane, Baelson B. Duque, Chandika Bhandari, Travis Wright, Vitaly Voloshin, Casey McKinnon
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Patent number: 7912933Abstract: Management related data is provided to a user. Tags are attached to the provided management related data upon user instruction. A tag is way to identify a piece of management. The tags that correspond with the management related data are stored in a database of the management system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis A. Wright, Baelson Duque
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Patent number: 7899903Abstract: One embodiment of the invention uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed to a programmability layer and provides enough information that the programmability layer can construct the various monitors, rules, classes and tasks required to monitor the given service without further customization by the user. In one embodiment, the user can also customize the service definition, a desired, in order to obtain additional monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Chandika Bandari, Lorenzo Rizzi, Stephen O. Wilson, Travis A. Wright, Vitaly V. Filimonov, Vitaly Voloshin
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Publication number: 20110035654Abstract: Techniques are described herein for customizing a form (a.k.a. a dialog) in a model-based system. For instance, the form may be customized without the need to modify the form in persistent memory, such as read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc. A representation of a customization (e.g., an extensible markup language file, a management pack, etc.) regarding the form is captured in memory, such as a random access memory (RAM), and stored in a file or a database. For instance, the representation of the customization may be stored separately from the form. The representation of the customization is retrieved from the file or the database and applied to a rendering of the form.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Travis Wright, Andrei Zenkovitch, Andrew Forget
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Publication number: 20100325159Abstract: An authorization system determines a user's permission to access an object implicitly based on relationships in a data-driven model. The system provides the ability to mark a relationship type in the model between one object class (accessor) and another object class (accessed) as an implicit authorization relationship type. A user can define the permissions granted to the accessor object on the accessed object. When an accessor object tries to access a related accessed object over an authorization relationship type, the authorization system determines the permissions granted by inspecting the implicit authorization relationship type definition. The authorization system can also traverse containment relationship types to grant objects permissions contained by other objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis A. Wright, Varsha Jayasimha
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Publication number: 20100211420Abstract: One or more available command units can be represented with a computer output device. The available command units can be command units from one or more snapins, such as one or more snapins that include command units to be run with a shell application. User input can be received from an input device, the user input selecting one or more selected command units of the available command units. In response to the user input, source code can be automatically generated from the one or more command units, and the source code can be automatically compiled to generate one or more workflow activities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sai Gopal Kodi, Edhi Sarwono, Travis A. Wright, James W. Truher, Frank Zakrajsek
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Patent number: 7664752Abstract: In a management system, a management server authorizes users to access computing devices based on class space and instance space. The management server further determines whether users are authorized to use particular computing devices and/or applications provided by the particular computing devices. Alerts may also be provided to the users by the management server.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lorenzo Rizzi, Abbot L. Moffat, Brijesh D. Bhatia, Ian C. Jirka, Sandeep Phadke, Travis A. Wright, Varsha Jayasimha
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Patent number: 7617190Abstract: A data feed is defined with a data type and criteria. Each data type corresponds to a type of management related data provided by a management system. The management system is searched for all management related data that corresponds with the data type and the criteria. An aggregator collects the management related data that corresponds with the data type and the criteria. The collected management related data is rendered for a display.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis A. Wright, Baelson B. Duque, Michael Todd La Riviere, Paul Adrian Oltean, Benjamin Salim Srour, Mark Felix Sterin, Corina Eva Feuerstein, Alexander Michael Sutton
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Patent number: 7519568Abstract: Systems and methods for playbook automation are described. In one aspect, a user selects operational knowledge associated with an application. The user associates one or more playbook-based tasks, playbook-based views, or playbook-based links with the operational knowledge. The playbook-based tasks, playbook-based views, and playbook-based links are for diagnosing, resolving, and/or verifying a problem associated with the application. The systems and methods generate an integrated management pack from the associated operational knowledge and at least one of the one or more playbook-based tasks, playbook-based views, or playbook-based links.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis A. Wright, Dale S Koetke, James M Pinkerton, Baelson B. Duque, Brett P Eddy
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Publication number: 20080301803Abstract: Processes and techniques for tailoring operations management in a system are described. The processes and techniques allow a user to customize operations management based on the user's function within a system and the particular tasks that the user wishes to accomplish. Simplified user interfaces can be created by scoping the interfaces based on user profiles, preferences and system components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marisol Ontaneda, Thomas W. Keane, Baelson B. Duque, Chandika Bhandari, Travis Wright, Vitaly Voloshin, Casey McKinnon
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Publication number: 20080244258Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scope.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice
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Publication number: 20070168349Abstract: One embodiment of the invention uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed to a programmability layer and provides enough information that the programmability layer can construct the various monitors, rules, classes and tasks required to monitor the given service without further customization by the user. In one embodiment, the user can also customize the service definition, a desired, in order to obtain additional monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ashvinkumar Sanghvi, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Chandika Bandari, Lorenzo Rizzi, Stephen Wilson, Travis Wright, Vitaly Filimonov, Vitaly Voloshin