John Joseph Sheehan

US Patent:

8627284, Jan 7, 2014

Filed:

Jun 19, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/488164

Inventors:

Adam D. Stritzel - Redmond WA, US
Adriaan W. Canter - Seattle WA, US
Eric P. Traut - Bellevue WA, US
Suyash Sinha - Snohomish WA, US
Tahsin Erdogan - Redmond WA, US
Dattatraya B. Rajpure - Redmond WA, US
John M. Sheehan - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

717120, 707609

Abstract:

One or more extension registrations are received for each of multiple software components installed on a computing device. The one or more extension registrations identify the software components as providers of functionality. A record of the one or more extension registrations for each of the multiple software components is maintained. Requests are received, from other software components installed on the computing device, that identify particular functionality. In response to such requests, the information regarding one or more of the multiple software components that provide the particular functionality is returned to the other software components.

US Patent:

8635611, Jan 21, 2014

Filed:

Nov 16, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/941292

Inventors:

Jefferson B. Criddle - Bellevue WA, US
Anthony Douglas Krueger - Woodinville WA, US
John Sheehan - Somerville MA, US
Joe Yap - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/445
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

717177, 709231

Abstract:

Embodiments are provided to create a virtual application or suite of virtual applications. In an embodiment, a system is configured to create a virtual package which includes information that can be used in a hosted virtual application environment. The system can provide bits of a virtual package based in part on user demand for an application or certain application functionality. In one embodiment, a system includes a sequencer component which can create a virtual package which includes information associated with setup-time and run-time changes made to a computing device. The sequencer component can use a number of extensible markup language (XML) files to create the virtual package. Other embodiments are available.

US Patent:

20130066832, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Sep 12, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/230267

Inventors:

John Michael Sheehan - Sammamish WA, US
Christopher D. Russell - Duvall WA, US
Hari Krishna Pammi - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707634, 707E17005, 707E17032

Abstract:

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for synchronizing application state between one or more instances of an application on one or more devices. In particular, an application state, such as application settings, may be synchronized between a first instance of an application on a first device and a second instance of the application on a second device. For example, a user may configure a new email account within a first instance of an email application on a laptop device. The new email account may be synchronized with a second instance of the email application on a tablet device. During synchronization, various conflict resolution, version verifications, and/or consistency verifications may be performed. In this way, the user may be provided with a seamless and consistent experience between the laptop and tablet device.

US Patent:

20130067447, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Sep 9, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/228906

Inventors:

Hemchander Venkateshwara Sannidhanam - Bothell WA, US
John M. Sheehan - Cambridge MA, US
Zainab Hakim - Sammamish WA, US
Edmund A. Brackett - Woodinville WA, US
Andres Carlo Petralli - Seattle WA, US
Ashish Awasthi - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/445
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717169, 717175

Abstract:

A single instance store including files for multiple packages is maintained in a computing device, each of the multiple packages including one or more components or modules for one or more applications. For each of the multiple packages, a record of a state for the package is maintained, and one or more of the multiple packages can have different ones of multiple states for different users. Based at least in part on a state machine and the state for one of the multiple packages, the one of the multiple packages is transitioned to a different state.

US Patent:

20130067448, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Sep 9, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/229397

Inventors:

Hemchander Venkateshwara Sannidhanam - Bothell WA, US
John Michael Sheehan - Sammamish WA, US
Andres Carlo Petralli - Seattle WA, US
Zainab Hakim - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/445
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717169, 717174

Abstract:

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for deploying an application within a computing environment. In particular, an application that is requested for deployment may be identified (e.g., an application to be downloaded, installed, updated, registered and/or removed during deployment). A set of deployment rules may be executed upon deployment parameters within a manifest (e.g., metadata describing how the application is to be deployed) to detect whether a conflict (e.g., issues that may arise from concurrent deployment) may exist between the deployment parameters and a second application currently being deployed within the computing environment. For example, resource access conflicts, file access conflicts, and/or registry access conflicts may be identified. If no conflicts exist, then the application may be concurrently deployed with the second application. In this way, applications associated with users may be concurrently deployed within the computing environment, while mitigating conflicts to achieve deployment parallelization.

US Patent:

20130067449, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Sep 12, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/230358

Inventors:

Hemchander Venkateshwara Sannidhanam - Bothell WA, US
John Michael Sheehan - Sammamish WA, US
Jason Ghssane Salameh - Bothell WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/445
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717170, 717168, 717171, 717174

Abstract:

Deploying applications to a device often involves generating an application package for installing the application anew, and application patches for updating the application from a specific first version to a specific second version. Presented herein are alternative techniques for deploying the application to devices using a block map indicating hashcodes for respective blocks of respective resources of the application. A device may install the application by installing the application package, or may update a deployed application from an earlier version to a later version by retrieving the block map, identifying updated blocks having a different hashcode than the current hashcode of the block in the currently deployed application, and retrieving only the updated blocks. The block map also enables concurrent deployment of multiple application versions, and resource sharing among deployed versions and variants by sharing commonly used blocks and retaining alternatives of blocks differing between such versions and variants.

US Patent:

20130067459, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Sep 9, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/229446

Inventors:

Hemchander Venkateshwara Sannidhanam - Bothell WA, US
John M. Sheehan - Cambridge MA, US
William L. Cheng - Redmond WA, US
Zainab Hakim - Sammamish WA, US
Jerome Thomas Holman - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/445

US Classification:

717176, 717174

Abstract:

In accordance with one or more aspects, a first one or more packages are included in a deployment collection for a software product. One or more identifiers of each of a second one or more packages are also included in the deployment collection for the software product. The deployment collection is obtained at a device. For each of the second one or more packages, the package is obtained based on the identifier of the package, and the first one or more packages and the second one or more packages are installed on the device.

US Patent:

20130067473, Mar 14, 2013

Filed:

Sep 10, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/229701

Inventors:

Jason R. Olson - Sammamish WA, US
John M. Sheehan - Cambridge MA, US
Christopher S. Dickens - Issaquah WA, US
Benjamin A. Betz - Redmond WA, US
Matthew S. Merry - Bellevue WA, US
Rodger W. Benson - Seattle WA, US
Ian H. Kim - Redmond WA, US
Daniel J. Oliver - Seattle WA, US
Elliot H. Omiya - Kirkland WA, US
Timothy R. Sullivan - Redmond WA, US
Scott Dart - Redmond WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

718100

Abstract:

Techniques for modes for applications are described. In one or more implementations, multiple operational modes are provided for an application. The operational modes can be associated with different resource access permissions, trust statuses, graphical user interfaces, and so on. An application can be launched in a particular one of the operational modes based on a context in which a request to launch the application is received. In one or more implementations, correlations between launch request contexts for an application and operational modes can be configured to enable different launch requests to cause an application to launch into different operational modes.