Nishant Agarwal Shobha Gupta

US Patent:

8146099, Mar 27, 2012

Filed:

Sep 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/862648

Inventors:

Alexander Tkatch - Sammamish WA, US
Akezyt Janedittakarn - Bellevue WA, US
Michael J. Ott - Redmond WA, US
Nishant Gupta - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

719316, 719328, 719330

Abstract:

Service-oriented systems employing pipeline architecture to accommodate third party extensions for extending existing functionality or providing additional functionality are provided. User or third party provided plug-ins are registered through metadata and executed in a pipeline along with platform operations. The pipeline is extendable on the fly with newly uploaded plug-ins. Dependency analyses for ordering synchronous or asynchronous pipeline operations enable multiple parties to extend the system and operate predictably. Loop detection mechanisms prevent misuse of system resources through accidental or malicious creation of infinite loops with exceptions for non-degenerate infinite loops.

US Patent:

8321503, Nov 27, 2012

Filed:

Jun 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/822744

Inventors:

Raymond E. Endres - Seattle WA, US
Nishant Gupta - Sammamish WA, US
Karthik Raman - Issaquah WA, US
Aditya G. Bhandarkar - Redmond WA, US
Farookh Mohammed - Woodinville WA, US
Dharma Shukla - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709203, 709225, 709226, 370352, 370449

Abstract:

A back-end locator service can be utilized to identify a specific computing device, from among multiple computing devices in a domain, that is the most appropriate computing device to handle a particular type of request for data or other resources. The data or resources hosted by the domain can be divided among multiple computing devices. The domain can expose a network-based application program interface where successive requests by a client computing device become more specific as to the data or resources requested. Responses from the computing devices in the domain can, at some point in time, be informed by the back-end locator service and can comprise location-specific resource identifiers. The client computing device can utilize such location specific resource identifiers to direct further communications to the appropriate, specific computing device without having to incur redirection inefficiencies.

US Patent:

8386424, Feb 26, 2013

Filed:

Jun 15, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/815713

Inventors:

Nitin Sharma - Redmond WA, US
Todd Manion - Seattle WA, US
Akash Jeevan Sagar - Redmond WA, US
Nishant Gupta - Sammamish WA, US
Farookh Mohammed - Woodinville WA, US
Aditya G Bhandarkar - Redmond WA, US
Karthik Raman - Issaquah WA, US
Ori Amiga - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707610, 707611, 707612, 707613, 707614, 707617, 707618, 707620, 707624, 707656, 707704, 709219, 370254, 370350, 718102

Abstract:

A unified data access mechanism can provide transparent access to data that is either stored locally or remotely. Application programs can direct data requests and data modifications to this singular component without foreknowledge of where the data is stored. The unified data access mechanism can work in concert with a synchronization mechanism that can maintain data synchronization between local data and remote data. Requested or modified data can be identified as stored locally or remotely based on the namespace of the data. If the data is stored remotely, the user credentials associated with the user's process space within which the application program is executing can be utilized to identify, and then provide, relevant authentication information to the remote data store, should it be required.

US Patent:

20080037423, Feb 14, 2008

Filed:

Aug 7, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/835130

Inventors:

Pradeep Singh - Arlington VA, US
Kent Hundley - Florence KY, US
David Manowitz - Washington DC, US
David James Boyd - Fulton MD, US
Nishant Gupta - Sammamish WA, US
Vinod Jeyachandran - Rockville MD, US

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

370230

Abstract:

Traffic flows through an administered network from an off-network source and/or to an off-network destination are simulated and analyzed by selecting an ingress and/or egress node within the administered network, the ingress node capable of collecting traffic from an off-network source, and the egress node capable of routing traffic to an off-network destination. Traffic flow is mapped from the source or ingress node through the administered network to the egress node. The traffic flow may be simulated and analyzed. The ingress and/or egress nodes may be selected in a variety of ways.