Patents by Inventor Weitao Su

Weitao Su 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).

  • Out-of-band framework libraries within applications
    Patent number: 9009693
    Abstract: An enhanced binder provides flexibility and certainty when selecting a version of a software library to load, and an enhanced loader prevents a library version vulnerable to a security flaw from being loaded. The binder can perform unification, implicit override, and/or redirection. Implicit override searches assembly-specific locations for an implicit_version, and override the previously chosen unification or other version with the implicit_version when the implicit_version is greater. The implicit_version gets updated with the individual assembly, whereas the unification_version gets updated with the framework. Redirection may override the implicit_version. Unlike redirection, an implicit_version does not recite an explicit range and is found outside application configuration files. The implicit_version is specified implicitly by the assembly without an XML declaration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric St. John, Mohammad Rahim Bhojani, Alok Shriram, David Kean, Divya Swarnkar, Kumar Gaurav Khanna, Gaye Oncul Kok, Jan Kotas, Michael J. Rayhelson, Michael Rousos, Weitao Su, Matthew Charles Cohn, Zhanliang Chen
  • OUT-OF-BAND FRAMEWORK LIBRARIES WITHIN APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20140337824
    Abstract: An enhanced binder provides flexibility and certainty when selecting a version of a software library to load, and an enhanced loader prevents a library version vulnerable to a security flaw from being loaded. The binder can perform unification, implicit override, and/or redirection. Implicit override searches assembly-specific locations for an implicit_version, and override the previously chosen unification or other version with the implicit_version when the implicit_version is greater. The implicit_version gets updated with the individual assembly, whereas the unification_version gets updated with the framework. Redirection may override the implicit_version. Unlike redirection, an implicit_version does not recite an explicit range and is found outside application configuration files. The implicit_version is specified implicitly by the assembly without an XML declaration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric St. John, Mohammad Rahim Bhojani, Alok Shriram, David Kean, Divya Swarnkar, Kumar Gaurav Khanna, Gaye Oncul Kok, Jan Kotas, Michael J. Rayhelson, Michael Rousos, Weitao Su, Matthew Charles Cohn, Zhanliang Chen