Mark Brian Shields

US Patent:

8051426, Nov 1, 2011

Filed:

Jan 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/619973

Inventors:

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
Brian C. Beckman - Newcastle WA, US
Mark B. Shields - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/46
G06F 9/455

US Classification:

718108, 718 1

Abstract:

A virtual machine is extended to include native support for co-routines. In this manner, high-level programmers are afforded access to such functionality. More particularly, supplied is a mechanism inside the virtual machine to enable method/function state to be maintained and subsequently restored. Consequently, a method/function can be called multiple times and resume where it last left off. This provides direct support for tier splitting patterns, iterators and comprehensions, among other things.

US Patent:

8464280, Jun 11, 2013

Filed:

Jan 8, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/684133

Inventors:

John Dyer - Monroe WA, US
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
Mark Shields - Seattle WA, US
Jeffrey van Gogh - Redmond WA, US
Danny van Velzen - Redmond WA, US
Brian Beckman - Newcastle WA, US
Harish Kantamneni - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/54

US Classification:

719318

Abstract:

A system and method for controlling the execution of notifications in a computer system with multiple notification contexts. A RunOn operator enables context hopping between notification contexts. Push-based stream operators optionally perform error checking to determine if notifications combined into a push-based stream share a common notification context. Context boxes group together notification creators and associate their notifications with a common scheduler and notification context. Operators employ a composition architecture, in which they receive one or more push-based streams and produce a transformed push-based stream that may be further operated upon. Components may be used in combinations to implement various policies, including a strict policy in which all notifications are scheduled in a common execution context, a permissive policy that provides programming flexibility, and a hybrid policy that combines flexibility with error checking.

US Patent:

8209674, Jun 26, 2012

Filed:

Feb 12, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/674041

Inventors:

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
Brian C. Beckman - Newcastle WA, US
Christopher W. Brumme - Mercer Island WA, US
Mark B. Shields - Seattle WA, US
Wei Zhu - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/45
G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

717151, 717106, 717121, 717149, 719318, 719330, 709201, 709203

Abstract:

A spectrum of tier-splitting mechanisms facilitates distributed programming. A rich application model and associated tools enable programmers to write rich distributed applications that can run anywhere. A program can be developed simply as a single tier or tier agnostic application. Subsequently or concurrently, the program can be sliced into multiple tiers in different ways to reflect, for instance, capabilities and/or constraints of a server, client and/or network.

US Patent:

20080195646, Aug 14, 2008

Filed:

Feb 12, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/674038

Inventors:

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
Mark B. Shields - Seattle WA, US
Soumitra Sengupta - Kirkland WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707102, 707E17044

Abstract:

A type system and query language for interpreting, storing, and communicating data is provided wherein the data is of hierarchical structure. The data is defined according to a web data model and materialized views are provided in conjunction with the available data as well as general hierarchical querying functionality.

US Patent:

20100131743, May 27, 2010

Filed:

Nov 25, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/277926

Inventors:

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
John Wesley Dyer - Monroe WA, US
Jeffrey Van Gogh - Redmond WA, US
Mark Brian Shields - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/00

US Classification:

712220, 712E09003

Abstract:

Event-based processing is employed in conjunction with lazy and stateless events. Addition of any handlers is deferred until a user-specified handler is identified. Furthermore, event handlers can be composed at this time including the same properties as underlying events. More specifically, handlers specified on composite events can be composed and propagated up to a one or more related source events. As a result, handlers are not accumulated on composite events thereby making them stateless while allowing equivalent functionality upon invocation of the composed top-level handler.

US Patent:

20100131921, May 27, 2010

Filed:

Nov 25, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/277907

Inventors:

John Wesley Dyer - Monroe WA, US
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
Danny Van Velzen - Redmond WA, US
Jeffrey Van Gogh - Redmond WA, US
Mark Brian Shields - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/45

US Classification:

717107, 717136

Abstract:

Conversions can be applied to various asynchronous and/or concurrent mechanisms. In particular, such mechanism can be transformed into first-class events to facilitate processing with respect to first-class events including but not limited to querying. Both conventional events and asynchronous computations can be transformed to these events, for example by generating and linking a proxy event thereto.

US Patent:

20110173621, Jul 14, 2011

Filed:

Jan 13, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/686950

Inventors:

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer - Mercer Island WA, US
John Wesley Dyer - Monroe WA, US
Jeffrey van Gogh - Redmond WA, US
Danny van Velzen - Redmond WA, US
Brian Beckman - Newcastle WA, US
Mark Shields - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/46
G06F 9/54

US Classification:

718102, 719318

Abstract:

A library of operators is provided for performing operations on push-based streams. The library may be implemented in a computing device. The library may be stored on a tangible machine-readable medium and may include instructions to be executed by one or more processors of a computing device. The library of operators may include groups of operators for performing various types of operations regarding push-based streams. The groups of operators may include, but not be limited to, standard sequence operators, other sequence operators, time operators, push-based operators, asynchronous operators, exception operators, functional operators, context operators, and event-specific operators.

US Patent:

20130007702, Jan 3, 2013

Filed:

Jun 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/173960

Inventors:

Lucas J. Hoban - Seattle WA, US
Mark B. Shields - Seattle WA, US
Steven E. Lucco - Bellevue WA, US
Charles P. Jazdzewski - Redmond WA, US
Anders Hejlsberg - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717114

Abstract:

A dynamic programming environment includes a dynamic runtime infrastructure configured to receive static metadata as source text in a source code written in a dynamic programming language. The dynamic runtime infrastructure determines an object representation based on the static metadata from the source text in the source code.