Jack M Kirstein

US Patent:

7502843, Mar 10, 2009

Filed:

Dec 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/026501

Inventors:

Jack Michael Kirstein - Seattle WA, US
Chih-Jen Huang - Kirkland WA, US
Pradeep GanapathyRaj - Bellevue WA, US
Sharry Claypool - Woodinville WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709223, 709224, 707 8

Abstract:

A queuing server is used for reliable message transport, where one subsystem desires to execute one or more ordered operations asynchronously. Messages are sent to the queue in groups, which may have one or more messages. Messages within a particular group are processed in a predetermined order. Optionally, groups of messages can marked as correlated such that all groups within a particular correlation can be processed in a predetermined order. A message can be stored in a SQL database table until processing of that message is complete. The receiving side of the message system can be scaled across multiple machines and/or across available resources of any given machine. The system can handle “disaster” scenarios on both the sending side (i. e. the sending machine crashes in the middle of sending a group), and the receiving side (i. e. , a power failure causes a reboot in at least one of the receiving machines).

US Patent:

7568009, Jul 28, 2009

Filed:

Oct 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/263005

Inventors:

Jack M. Kirstein - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709206, 709203, 709223, 709224, 707 10, 707102, 7071041

Abstract:

Queue rendezvous services allow mutual exclusion of processing of certain message types in a generic way without unnecessarily tying up queue resources while waiting for certain conditions to be met and without requiring a queue client to implement application locks to support mutual exclusion processing rules.

US Patent:

58225030, Oct 13, 1998

Filed:

Jun 20, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/879476

Inventors:

Al C. Gass - Lynnwood WA
Jack M. Kirstein - Bainbridge Island WA
John W. Fearnside - Seattle WA
Thomas A. Donovan - Seattle WA
Chiiwen Kevin Hu - Bellevue WA

Assignee:

Adobe Systems Incorporated - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06F 1500

US Classification:

395109

Abstract:

Disclosed is a method of modifying one or more colors contained in an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file in a computer program such as a desktop publishing program (50). After an EPS file has been imported into a publication, all identifiable colors in the EPS file, i. e. , spot colors and, in some instances, process colors, are displayed to a color palette (84). The color palette allows a user to see those colors (or inks) that are needed to print the publication, and subsequently modify the colors without having to return to the originating program that exported the EPS file. The method includes creating a publication color list that contains those colors that have been modified, generating a PostScript (PS) color table from the publication color list after the modifications are complete, and changing the attributes of those colors in the PS table while printing the publication to a file or to a printer.