Stephen T Swartz

US Patent:

6748455, Jun 8, 2004

Filed:

Feb 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/257364

Inventors:

Gerald L. Hinson - Snohomish WA
Donald J. McCrady - Redmond WA
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 946

US Classification:

709318

Abstract:

An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution objects outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.

US Patent:

6829770, Dec 7, 2004

Filed:

Feb 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/257363

Inventors:

Gerald L. Hinson - Snohomish WA
Donald W. Dumitru - Bellevue WA
Donald J. McCrady - Redmond WA
Seth B. Pollack - Seattle WA
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 300

US Classification:

719318, 719328

Abstract:

An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution objects outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.

US Patent:

7237245, Jun 26, 2007

Filed:

Nov 18, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/993070

Inventors:

Gerald L. Hinson - Snohomish WA, US
Donald W. Dumitru - Bellevue WA, US
Donald J. McCrady - Redmond WA, US
Seth B. Pollack - Seattle WA, US
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/46

US Classification:

719318, 719328

Abstract:

An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.

US Patent:

7478405, Jan 13, 2009

Filed:

Sep 29, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/955975

Inventors:

Gerald L. Hinson - Snohomish WA, US
Donald W. Dumitru - Bellevue WA, US
Donald J. McCrady - Redmond WA, US
Seth B. Pollack - Seattle WA, US
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/46

US Classification:

719318, 719316, 719328

Abstract:

An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.

US Patent:

7512957, Mar 31, 2009

Filed:

Dec 3, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/003307

Inventors:

Shy Cohen - Bellevue WA, US
Geary L. Eppley - Carnation WA, US
Douglas M. Purdy - Bellevue WA, US
James E. Johnson - Bellevue WA, US
Stephen J. Millet - Edmonds WA, US
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA, US
Vijay K. Gajjala - Sammamish WA, US
Aaron Abraham Stern - Bellevue WA, US
Alexander Martin DeJarnatt - Seattle WA, US
Anastasios Kasiolas - San Mateo CA, US
Chaitanya D. Upadhyay - Kirkland WA, US
Christopher G. Kaler - Sammamish WA, US
Craig Andrew Critchley - Fall City WA, US
David Edwin Levin - Redmond WA, US
David Owen Driver - Seattle WA, US
David Wortendyke - Seattle WA, US
Douglas A. Walter - Issaquah WA, US
Elliot Lee Waingold - Seattle WA, US
Erik Bo Christensen - Seattle WA, US
Erin P. Honeycutt - Redmond WA, US
Eugene Shvets - Seattle WA, US
Evgeny Osovetsky - Bellevue WA, US
Giovanni M. Della-Libera - Seattle WA, US
John David Doty - Seattle WA, US
Jonathan T. Wheeler - Bothell WA, US
Kapil Gupta - Redmond WA, US
Kenneth David Wolf - Seattle WA, US
Krishnan Srinivasan - Kirkland WA, US
Lance E. Olson - Sammamish WA, US
Matthew Thomas Tavis - Seattle WA, US
Mauro Ottaviani - Mercer Island WA, US
Max Attar Feingold - Bellevue WA, US
Michael James Coulson - Clyde Hill WA, US
Michael Jon Marucheck - Bellevue WA, US
Michael Steven Vernal - Seattle WA, US
Michael Thomas Dice - Redmond WA, US
Mohammad Makarechian - Seattle WA, US
Natasha Harish Jethanandani - Seattle WA, US
Richard Dievendorff - Bellevue WA, US
Richard Douglas Hill - Kirkland WA, US
Ryan Thomas Sturgell - Seattle WA, US
Saurab Nog - Sammamish WA, US
Scott Christopher Seely - Bellevue WA, US
Serge Sverdlov - Bellevue WA, US
Siddhartha Puri - Sammamish WA, US
Sowmyanarayanan K. Srinivasan - Redmond WA, US
Stefan Batres - Sammamish WA, US
Stefan Harrington Pharies - Seattle WA, US
Tirunelveli Vishwanath - Redmond WA, US
Tomasz Janczuk - Redmond WA, US
Uday S. Hegde - Bellevue WA, US
Umesh Madan - Bellevue WA, US
Vipul Arunkant Modi - Redmond WA, US
Yaniv Pessach - Redmond WA, US
Yasser Shohoud - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/00

US Classification:

719328

Abstract:

A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.

US Patent:

7519713, Apr 14, 2009

Filed:

Feb 4, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/051043

Inventors:

Michael Jon Marucheck - Bellevue WA, US
Ryan Thomas Sturgell - Seattle WA, US
Alex DeJarnett - Seattle WA, US
Eric K. Zinda - Seattle WA, US
Jesus Ruiz Scougall - Sammamish WA, US
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA, US
Stephen J. Millet - Edmonds WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

709227, 709232, 719330

Abstract:

The present invention extends to mapping between object oriented and service oriented representations of a distributed application. A computer system accesses an annotated object oriented representation of a service, which is annotated with service description attributes mapping included objects to corresponding service oriented elements in a service oriented representation of the service. The computer system identifies a service description attribute that annotates an object of the annotated object oriented representation. The computer system maps the object to a corresponding service oriented element in accordance with service description information contained in the identified service description attribute. The computer system outputs a channel object configured to implements behaviors and data formats described in the service oriented representations. The computer system initiates a channel that is compatible with behaviors and data formats of the service.

US Patent:

7730041, Jun 1, 2010

Filed:

Aug 25, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/925567

Inventors:

Douglas M. Purdy - Bellevue WA, US
Sowmyanarayanan K. Srinivasan - Redmond WA, US
Bradford H. Lovering - Seattle WA, US
Donald F. Box - Bellevue WA, US
Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya - Sammamish WA, US
Natasha H. Jethanandani - Seattle WA, US
Stefan H. Pharies - Seattle WA, US
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA, US
Steven E. Lucco - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707694, 707804, 715234

Abstract:

Serialization and deserialization using data contracts. The data contract specifies data types that are serialized and deserialized for data objects that are associated with the data contract. During serialization, the data contract associated with the data object is identified. Then, the data fields that correspond to those specified data field types are extracted from the data object and serialized into a serialization format. During deserialization, the serialization mechanism receives a serialized data structure having a particular serialization format. A data contract is then identified as being associated with the serialized data structure. After deserialization of the serialized data structure into abstract data, a corresponding data object is populated with data fields that correspond only with those data field types specified in the data contract. Accordingly, data abstraction is enabled while serializing and deserializing.

US Patent:

7739690, Jun 15, 2010

Filed:

Apr 26, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/740579

Inventors:

Igor Sedukhin - Issaquah WA, US
Dan Eshner - Issaquah WA, US
Stephen T. Swartz - Seattle WA, US
Oliver Sharp - Sammamish WA, US
Uday Kumar Bhaskara - Redmond WA, US
Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya - Sammamish WA, US
Amol Sudhakar Kulkarni - Bothell WA, US
Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa - Redmond WA, US
Vladimir Pogrebinsky - Sammamish WA, US
Haoran Andy Wu - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 13/00

US Classification:

719318, 719321, 719327

Abstract:

Abstracting communication with a plurality of containers. Each container encapsulates or hosts a module (e. g. , a web service, a database, etc. ) associated with a distributed application. A meta-container communicates with drivers that interface with each of the containers. The meta-container represents an abstraction and a virtualization of the containers in the hierarchy. Each container may also be a meta-container for other containers. The recursion and layered hierarchy provide flexible, extensible, and efficient management of the distributed application.