Stefan R Batres

US Patent:

7246305, Jul 17, 2007

Filed:

Dec 10, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/009656

Inventors:

Stefan R. Batres - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/21

US Classification:

715500

Abstract:

A method and system for previewing and printing customized pages, such as business forms including invoices and billing statements. An author-created template has HTML and OLE components (controls) placed on a page to define a visual representation of a class of object that is part of a database. The controls merge data from a selected current object of the database into the template, producing a visual representation of the object that is both viewable and printable. An extension to the present invention involves the use of multiple-page HTML to dynamically provide subsequent pages based on retrieved data. For example, if the data retrieved by the controls for an invoice is too large to display on a single invoice page, another HTML page, that is different from the first page of the invoice, would be automatically loaded as a template and the overflow data properly merged therewith.

US Patent:

7349384, Mar 25, 2008

Filed:

Dec 10, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/009420

Inventors:

Richard D. Hill - Kirkland WA, US
Stefan R. Batres - Sammamish WA, US
Shy Cohen - Bellevue WA, US
Michael T. Dice - Redmond WA, US
Rodney T. Limprecht - Woodinville WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04J 3/16
H04L 12/66
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

370352, 370410, 370465, 709220, 709230

Abstract:

Example embodiments provide for a binding mechanism between RM protocols and request-response transport protocols (e. g. , HTTP) in a one-way message exchange pattern. The present invention leverages existing network characteristics of request-response transport protocols without reconfiguration or deployment of new infrastructure services. A request-response transport model is asymmetrical in nature and provides two data-flows; a request flow and a reply flow. When an initiator is not addressable and/or when communication requires a request-response transport, the present invention allows infrastructure and application messages to be sent on the request flow, while acknowledgments and other infrastructure messages may be sent back across the reply flow of the transport.

US Patent:

7359919, Apr 15, 2008

Filed:

Mar 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/075418

Inventors:

Shy Cohen - Bellevue WA, US
Kirill Gavrylyuk - Redmond WA, US
Ondrej Hrebicek - Redmond WA, US
Richard Hill - Kirkland WA, US
Stefan R. Batres - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 15/173

US Classification:

7071041, 709223, 709225

Abstract:

A reliable request-response mechanism allows a requesting computer system and a responding computer system in an established end-to-end connection to send and receive messages in a manner that the responding computer system processes a request as intended by the requesting computer system, such that all the message communication is initiated by the requesting computer system. The requesting computer system and responding computer system can accommodate a wide range of messaging failures, such as intermittent network connections or failure of a transport of SOAP intermediary by resending cached versions of previously sent messages, and by acknowledging receipt of each message received. Cached messages on either computer system are deleted after being appropriately acknowledged. After all sent messages have been acknowledged by the responding computer, and the requesting computer has received all of the response messages from the responding computer, the end-to-end connection is terminated with an exchange of connection termination messages.

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:

7730196, Jun 1, 2010

Filed:

Dec 3, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/003848

Inventors:

Richard D. Hill - Kirkland WA, US
Stefan R. Batres - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709230, 709228, 709232, 709235

Abstract:

The present invention provides for flow and congestion control mechanisms in accordance with a Reliable Message protocol for Web Services (RM-WS). For flow control, one endpoint informs another endpoint of its available buffer size by including buffer size information in response messages. The response messages, typically RM-WS infrastructure messages, are then used to determine an upper limit on the number of messages that can be sent to the acceptor in order to prevent resending messages due to buffer overrun. In the case of congestion control, embodiments provide for increasing the number of in-flight messages until a failure point is found. The last successful rate below the failure point is the closest known point to the optimum point. Example embodiments then reset and try again raising the rate back to the last known good point and fine tuning from there using an algorithm that asymptotes the optimum rate.

US Patent:

7835309, Nov 16, 2010

Filed:

Dec 16, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/336233

Inventors:

Nicholas A. Allen - Redmond WA, US
Stefan R. Batres - Sammamish WA, US
Margaret J. Lye - Redmond WA, US
Evgeny Osovetsky - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04B 1/56
H00L 5/14

US Classification:

370276, 709227, 709228

Abstract:

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for multiplexed communication for duplex applications. Embodiments of the invention facilitate a multiplexed variant of long polling over a request/reply communication medium that (potentially significantly) reduces the resources utilized when exchanging messages. The lightweight address generation mechanism facilitates polling and routing for a pool of many clients and many services while minimizing allocated resources to each established session. Further, the benefits of a lower latency bidirectional communication medium between clients and services can be utilized.

US Patent:

7899921, Mar 1, 2011

Filed:

Dec 8, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/007372

Inventors:

Richard D. Hill - Kirkland WA, US
Stefan R. Batres - Sammamish WA, US
Shy Cohen - Bellevue WA, US
Michael J. Moroney - Bellevue WA, US
Rodney T. Limprecht - Woodinville WA, US
Margaret J. Lye - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709230, 709227, 709228, 709229

Abstract:

The present invention monitors the receipt of messages between two endpoints on established sequence session in accordance with a Reliable Messaging protocol for Web Services (RM-WS protocol). The messages received may be application or infrastructure messages (e. g. , acknowledgement messages in accordance with the RM-WS protocol). Further, the present invention defines a time period known as the inactivity timeout, which is an upper limit to the time that may pass without receiving a message (either application or infrastructure) on the sequence session. Based on this inactivity timeout period, the present invention calculates time periods for sending idempotent infrastructure messages in accordance with the RM-WS protocol for verifying and maintaining connection liveliness.

US Patent:

8099498, Jan 17, 2012

Filed:

Sep 3, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/203826

Inventors:

Nicholas A. Allen - Redmond WA, US
Stefan R. Batres - Sammamish WA, US
Justin D. Brown - Seattle WA, US
Edmund S. V. Pinto - Duvall WA, US
Karthik Raman - Issaquah WA, US
John A. Taylor - Bellevue WA, US
Kenneth D. Wolf - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709226

Abstract:

Routing messages using unreliable routing data. A method includes receiving a message from a computer readable communication medium. Characteristic properties of the message are calculated so as to determine state requirements for a service instance at a service for processing of the message. An attempt is made to acquire an appropriate service instance that satisfies the state requirements for processing the message. A determination is made that attempting to acquire an appropriate service instance that satisfies the state requirements for processing the message is not successful at acquiring an appropriate service instance. As a result, the message is redirected using an unreliable local cache of routing information and without coordination between processing nodes.