Thomas C Quinn

US Patent:

7418697, Aug 26, 2008

Filed:

Jul 25, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/626958

Inventors:

Izydor Gryko - Sammamish WA, US
Michal Sampson - Bellevue WA, US
Brian Crawford - Seattle WA, US
C. Douglas Hodges - Sammamish WA, US
Michael Eng - Issaquah WA, US
Adam Krantz - Seattle WA, US
Eric Carter - Kirkland WA, US
Elliot Omiya - Kirkland WA, US
Thomas Quinn - Kirkland WA, US
John Rivard - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717124, 717130, 717139

Abstract:

Specific tasks associated with debugging are performed in the background, prior to a user of an application development tool invoking the debugger. The tasks including (1) starting a hosting process, (2) loading a hosted runtime environment (e. g. ,. NET runtime) in the process, and (3) attaching a debugger to the hosting process, are performed in the background before the user commences debugging. Once the user invokes the debugger, the user's application is executed and debugged. Thus, the perceived time to start debugging is greatly reduced.

US Patent:

7530079, May 5, 2009

Filed:

Sep 7, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/470863

Inventors:

Paul Stubbs - Redmond WA, US
Philo N. Nordlund - Seattle WA, US
John A. Shepard - Seattle WA, US
Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US
C. Douglas Hodges - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 13/00

US Classification:

719320, 717100, 717101, 717106, 717120

Abstract:

A facility is provided for managing application customization. In various embodiments, an application associated with the facility receives an indication of an application identifier that identifies a customized instance of the application, determines whether the customized instance of the application is available and, when the customized instance of the application is available, configures the application to employ a resource associated with the customized instance of the application. The facility can receive an identifier and an indication to update common components of an application, the application having a customized instance of the application; remove components associated with the customized instance of the application; copy common components associated with the application; associate the common components with the received identifier; and apply customizing components that customize the common components of the application to create a customized instance of the application.

US Patent:

7634578, Dec 15, 2009

Filed:

Jul 14, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/181614

Inventors:

Brian K. Pepin - Seattle WA, US
James S. Miller - Bellevue WA, US
Jeffrey Richter - Kirkland WA, US
Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 9/455
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

709246, 703 27, 717122, 717170

Abstract:

Node-to-node communication pipelines may include code modules that are configured and assembled across a protocol according to dynamically input module-specific parameters. The parameters may be input to a service into which the modules are registered, and one or more appropriate pipelines may be dynamically assembled.

US Patent:

7945921, May 17, 2011

Filed:

Mar 1, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/681159

Inventors:

Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

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

US Classification:

719332, 719330, 719315, 709227, 709330, 717136

Abstract:

A system allows a non-virtual method of a base class inherited by a derived class to be effectively overridden so that code developed to access the method via the base class accesses the overriding behavior. The system replaces an instance of the derived class with a dynamic object and transparent object with the transparent object appearing to provide to invoking code an implementation of the derived class. Upon receiving an invocation of a method, the transparent proxy directs the invocation to the dynamic object by invoking an invoke method of the dynamic object passing an indication of the invoked method of the transparent object. The dynamic object may be an instance of a dynamic class that inherits a real class with a virtual invoke method. The dynamic class overrides the invoke method to provide overriding behavior.

US Patent:

8010970, Aug 30, 2011

Filed:

Apr 10, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/733524

Inventors:

Dimitar Birov - Sofia, BG
Michael W. Morton - Snohomish WA, US
Daniel A. Molina - Redmond WA, US
John Durant - Duvall WA, US
Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US
Michael Shneerson - Redmond WA, US
David A. Whitechapel - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 9/44
G06F 9/46
G06F 13/00

US Classification:

719320, 719315, 719318

Abstract:

The forms hosting system allows a developer to design custom Outlook form regions containing standard and custom managed controls using popular development tools. The forms hosting system provides a runtime wrapper that appears to Outlook as a normal ActiveX control. When Outlook invokes the runtime wrapper control, the runtime wrapper control loads the managed controls defined by the developer. The runtime wrapper control translates messages received from Outlook into messages understood by the managed controls.

US Patent:

8181188, May 15, 2012

Filed:

Feb 15, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/675616

Inventors:

Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US
Michael Shneerson - Redmond WA, US
David A. Whitechapel - Seattle WA, US
William A. Robertson - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

719328, 717170

Abstract:

A method and architecture for increasing version resiliency between a host application that is unmanaged code and managed code is provided. A version resiliency technique specifies that the host application and the managed code communicate via an adapter that implements a protocol to access an object exposed by the host application. The version resiliency technique specifies that when a new version of the host application that impacts an interface exposed by the object of the host application is released, a new version of the adapter that executes within the application domain of the custom code is released. A version of managed code that adheres to the protocol will correctly interact with new versions of the host application that include a new version of the object because a new implementation of the adapter is also provided.

US Patent:

8336043, Dec 18, 2012

Filed:

Feb 15, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/675591

Inventors:

Darryn O. Lavery - Seattle WA, US
Adriaan W. Canter - Seattle WA, US
Sameer V. Bhangar - Seattle WA, US
Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US
Justin Kwak - Redmond WA, US
Jeff Young - Snoqualmie WA, US
Brent Rector - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/445

US Classification:

717173, 717178

Abstract:

A method and system for dynamically downloading custom code for execution within a host application is provided. A deployment system augments the manifest used for deploying managed applications to include information describing how the host application is to use the custom code, referred to as host manifest information. The deployment system reports the progress of the downloading of the manifest and the custom code to the host application. The host application can then perform appropriate host-specific processing. The host application may provide to the deployment system an interface for verifying the trust of the custom code. The deployment system also allows the host application to control the uninstalling of the custom code.

US Patent:

8615743, Dec 24, 2013

Filed:

Feb 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/276362

Inventors:

James S. Miller - Bellevue WA, US
Thomas E. Quinn - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/45
H04L 29/06

US Classification:

717136, 717124, 717127, 717151, 713156

Abstract:

In a managed execution environment, an error may be deferred until execution of the application, program, function, or other assemblage of code reaches a point at which calling the reference to a module associated with a missing type or type member becomes inevitable.