Bassam S Tabbara, 512503 Montavista Pl W, Seattle, WA 98199

6434578, Aug 13, 2002

Jun 26, 1996

08/669781

David McCauley - Seattle WA
Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA
John Rinaldo - Bellevue WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1721

707517, 7075011, 707513, 707523

An information server system is responsive to page specifications to render information pages at a plurality of clients that use different client software and that have widely different characteristics. Information pages are authored in a generic page specification format that is not limited to any particular client or client software. In response to a request for the information page, the server system selects and executes a page renderer that is compatible with the client software of the client requesting the information. The page renderer converts the page specification of the information page to an instruction sequence that is tailored particularly for the requesting client. The conversion is accomplished by selecting and executing a plurality of independently-executable pane renderers.

6460043, Oct 1, 2002

Feb 26, 1999

09/258417

Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA
Rico Mariani - Kirkland WA
Kristi L. Brandes - Bellevue WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1730

707100, 707101, 707 3, 707 4

A data services layer is disclosed which maintains a dictionary of conceptual information and physical information about the data. Machine-readable requests to access the data are in a form related to a conceptual organization of the data, and is not specific to a physical organization of the data. A machine-readable query to obtain a subset of the data is produced by referencing the dictionary of conceptual and physical information about the data. The conceptual information is obtained from an object-relational-model of the data, and the physical information indicates how the data is organized on the data storage medium. Requests are written in a conceptual query language (CQL) which substantially uses terms belonging to or derived from a natural language. CQL includes terms in the classes of names and concepts, and wherein name terms are used to describe objects in the object-relational-model of the data, and concept terms are used to specify the data subset desired. Concept terms specify Facts desired from the data, and filters and sort specifications to be applied to the Facts.

6626958, Sep 30, 2003

Nov 18, 1998

09/195574

David McCauley - Seattle WA
Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA
John Rinaldo - Bellevue WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1721

715517, 715513, 7155011

An information server system is responsive to page specifications to render information pages at a plurality of clients that use different client software and that have widely different characteristics. Information pages are authored in a generic page specification format that is not limited to any particular client or client software. In response to a request for the information page, the server system selects and executes a page renderer that is compatible with the client software of the client requesting the information. The page renderer converts the page specification of the information page to an instruction sequence that is tailored particularly for the requesting client. The conversion is accomplished by selecting and executing a plurality of independently-executable pane renderers.

6631498, Oct 7, 2003

Nov 18, 1998

09/195584

David McCauley - Seattle WA
Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA
John Rinaldo - Bellevue WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1721

715517, 715513, 7155011

An information server system is responsive to page specifications to render information pages at a plurality of clients that use different client software and that have widely different characteristics. Information pages are authored in a generic page specification format that is not limited to any particular client or client software. In response to a request for the information page, the server system selects and executes a page renderer that is compatible with the client software of the client requesting the information. The page renderer converts the page specification of the information page to an instruction sequence that is tailored particularly for the requesting client. The conversion is accomplished by selecting and executing a plurality of independently-executable pane renderers.

6654741, Nov 25, 2003

May 3, 1999

09/304133

Ariye M Cohen - Seattle WA
Rico Mariani - Kirkland WA
Sanjeev K Rajan - Kirkland WA
Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1730

707 6, 707 4

The invention provides for flexible, convenient, and dynamic URL mapping methods and systems by providing generalized approaches which specify patterns in term of recognizable syntax. The recognizable syntax can be defined by one or more rules. The rules are used and applied to an input URL string which is provided by a client to map the input URL string to an output URL string which is used by a rendering engine to provide a requested resource. Embodiments of the invention provide for a rule cache or internal store in which rules are kept. The rule cache allows for rules to be added, deleted, or modified as desired, without the need to stop and re-start the web service. The rule cache can be populated dynamically at run time. In addition, embodiments of the invention conveniently group rules into rule groups. Individual rule groups can be selectively applied to an input URL string.

6751778, Jun 15, 2004

May 3, 1999

09/304134

David M Broman - Redmond WA
Ariye M Cohen - Seattle WA
Rico Mariani - Kirkland WA
Attila Narin - Kirkland WA
Sanjeev K Rajan - Kirkland WA
Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1721

715517, 715523, 715530

Methods and systems for rendering information pages are described. A page is divided into panes which are rendered by individual pane renderers. The pane renderers can be shared between pages, or even re-used across multiple applications. Rendering support components or objects are provided and can provide access to shared services or data (e. g. ads, user preferences, scripts, and styles) that might be required by multiple panes on a page. Page descriptions comprising pane renderers are created dynamically in a prescribed fashion by an application. A page renderer service in a platform then processes the page description and causes the appropriate RSOs to be called, initialized, and used by the pane renderers to render the page.

6882999, Apr 19, 2005

Jul 22, 2003

10/625448

Ariye M Cohen - Seattle WA, US
Rico Mariani - Kirkland WA, US
Sanjeev K Rajan - Kirkland WA, US
Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F017/30

707 6, 707 2, 707 4, 707 10, 709203

An input URL string is searched for a particular pattern, the pattern being defined in a manner such that the search may be satisfied while allowing variability among constituent parts of the input URL string. The input URL string is mapped to an output URL string if the pattern is found in the input URL string.

6886038, Apr 26, 2005

Oct 24, 2000

09/695820

Bassam Tabbara - Seattle WA, US
Galen C. Hunt - Bellevue WA, US
Aamer Hydrie - Kirkland WA, US
Steven P. Levi - Redmond WA, US
David S. Stutz - Redmond WA, US
Robert V. Welland - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F015/173

709223, 709224, 709225, 709229

A controller, referred to as the “BMonitor”, is situated on a computer. The BMonitor includes a plurality of filters that identify where data can be sent to and/or received from, such as another node in a co-location facility or a client computer coupled to the computer via the Internet. The BMonitor further receives and implements requests from external sources regarding the management of software components executing on the computer, allowing such external sources to initiate, terminate, debug, etc. software components on the computer. Additionally, the BMonitor operates as a trusted third party mediating interaction among multiple external sources managing the computer.