Sanjay Anand, 5617838 NE 105Th Way, Redmond, WA 98052

6370599, Apr 9, 2002

Sep 7, 2000

09/657510

Sanjay Anand - Redmond WA
Nk Srinivas - Sammamish WA
Jameel Hyder - Sammamish WA
Kyle E. Brandon - Madison WI

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1314

710 15, 709203, 709219, 711 39, 714104

The present invention is directed to a method and computer program product for offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer systems processor and memory, to a peripheral device, or devices, that are connected to the computer. The computing task is then performed by the peripheral, thereby saving computer system resources for other computing tasks and increasing the overall computing efficiency of the computer system. In one preferred embodiment, the disclosed method is utilized in a layered network model, wherein computing tasks that are typically performed in network applications are instead offloaded to the network interface card (NIC) peripheral. An application executing on the computer system first queries the processing, or task offload capabilities of the NIC, and then selectively enables those capabilities that may be subsequently needed by the application. The specific processing capabilities of a NIC are made available by creating a task offload buffer data structure, which contains data indicative of the processing capabilities of the corresponding NIC. Once an application has discerned the capabilities of a particular NIC, it will selectively utilize any of the enabled task offload capabilities of the NIC by appending packet extension data to the network data packet that is forwarded to the NIC.

6904519, Jun 7, 2005

Nov 29, 2000

09/726082

Sanjay Anand - Redmond WA, US
N K Srinivas - Issaquah WA, US
Jameel Hyder - Sammamish WA, US
Kyle E. Brandon - Madison WI, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F015/173

713100, 710 15, 709203, 709219, 709223, 709230, 709236

Offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer system's processor and memory, to a peripheral device. The computing task is then performed by the peripheral, thereby saving computer system resources for other computing tasks. In one preferred embodiment, the disclosed method is utilized in a layered network model, wherein computing tasks that are typically performed in network applications are instead offloaded to the network interface card (NIC) peripheral.

6993644, Jan 31, 2006

Dec 23, 2004

11/021184

Sanjay Anand - Redmond WA, US
NK Srinivas - Issaquah WA, US
Jameel Hyder - Sammamish WA, US
Kyle E. Brandon - Madison WI, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 13/14

713 1, 713 2, 709203, 709213, 709219, 709230, 709250, 710 15

Offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer system's processor and memory, to a peripheral device. The computing task is then performed by the peripheral, thereby saving computer system resources for other computing tasks. In one preferred embodiment, the disclosed method is utilized in a layered network model, wherein computing tasks that are typically performed in network applications are instead offloaded to the network interface card (NIC) peripheral.

7251822, Jul 31, 2007

Oct 23, 2003

10/691999

Sameet H. Agarwal - Redmond WA, US
Balan Sethu Raman - Redmond WA, US
Sanjay Anand - Sammamish WA, US
Paul J. Leach - Seattle WA, US
Richard B. Ward - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30
G06F 7/00

726 1, 726 26, 707 1, 707 9, 707100

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate security for data items residing within (or associated with) a hierarchical database or storage structure. A database security system is provided having a hierarchical data structure associated with one or more data items. The system includes a security component that applies a security policy to the data items from a global location or region associated with a database. Various components and processes are employed to enable explicit and/or inherited security properties to be received by and propagated to the data items depending on the type of data structure encountered or processed.

7440981, Oct 21, 2008

Jul 31, 2003

10/631591

Lev Novik - Bellevue WA, US
Irena Hudis - Bellevue WA, US
Douglas B. Terry - San Carlos CA, US
Ashish Shah - Sammamish WA, US
Sanjay Anand - Sammamish WA, US
Yunxin Wu - Kirkland WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707204, 707200, 707205

Systems and methods for replicating replicas in a sync community. Each replica in the sync community stores knowledge that represents changes the replica is aware of. Because each replica has its own knowledge, each replica does not need to know how many replicas are in the sync community or the topology of the sync community. By sending the knowledge with a request for changes, a replicating replica can enumerate the changes to replicate by comparing its knowledge with the received knowledge. After replication, the knowledge is updated. Knowledge may also include made-with-knowledge change IDs that permit each resolution to identify what a replica was aware of when a particular change was made. The made-with-knowledge values are used to detect conflicts during replication.

7502807, Mar 10, 2009

Jun 30, 2006

11/480693

Sambavi Muthukrishnan - Woodinville WA, US
Srinivasmurthy P. Acharya - Sammamish WA, US
Mahadevan Venkatraman - Redmond WA, US
Anurag Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Michael W. Thomas - Redmond WA, US
Joseph Trdinich - Redmond WA, US
Balan Sethu Raman - Redmond WA, US
Sameet H. Argawal - Redmond WA, US
Sanjay Anand - Redmond WA, US
Salome Jacob - Sammamish WA, US
Roopali Kaujalgi - Bellevue WA, US
Amit Shukla - Sammamish WA, US
Maxim Mazeev - Redmond WA, US
Rodger Nickels Kline - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707101, 707200

Rich structured data for items in a file system that allows different kinds of data to be identified by metadata is mapped into a set of search properties for a desktop search service, which is a flat list. This is applicable to any rich structured data that should be mapped into search properties for a desktop search service. Included is an installation mechanism to install these mappings and an execution infrastructure for utilizing the generated SQL from the mappings to extract search properties from items.

7529778, May 5, 2009

Dec 12, 2001

10/021392

Brian K. Dewey - Seattle WA, US
David Kruse - Kirkland WA, US
Shishir Pardikar - Redmond WA, US
Sanjay Anand - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707203, 707202, 707204, 707 10

A system and method that automatically and transparently enable access to prior file or folder versions for a selected file or folder. When a file or folder is selected for version location, such as via a user interface, prior versions are automatically located and time data (e. g. , determined from timestamps) identifying each of the prior versions is displayed. The user can then select a prior version for restoration and thereby recover from changed file data. The present invention can be implemented using remote file servers, or with local file system volumes. Prior to displaying the versions for selection, attributes of the prior versions may be requested, whereby only versions that actually exist can be displayed, and/or only versions with possibly different data are displayed, reducing unnecessary selection for restoration.

7694340, Apr 6, 2010

Oct 6, 2004

10/959383

Balan Sethu Raman - Redmond WA, US
Sameet Harishanker Agarwal - Redmond WA, US
Nigel R Ellis - Redmond WA, US
Sanjay Anand - Sammamish WA, US
Rohan Kumar - Redmond WA, US
Johannes Klein - Sammamish WA, US
Mihai Costea - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 11/00
G06F 7/04
G06F 13/00

726 24, 726 22, 726 23

Systems and methodologies for integration of an anti virus AV Plug In(s) as part of an Item Store. The semantics for operation of the AV Plug In(s) are provided by the relational Item Store, via employing a metadata component and a scanning component associated with the Item Store. The metadata component can supply a signature value being associated with the Item Store that can represent the time of scanning of data, and outcome for every scanned item. The scanning component can provide for a queuing of items in the data store in a synchronous and/or asynchronous mode for both scanning and cleaning by the AV Plug In supplied by vendors.