Steven G Judd Deceased83-989 Kaohia Pl, Captain Cook, HI 96704

6360230, Mar 19, 2002

Nov 18, 1998

09/195568

Chuck Y. Chan - Bellevue WA
Krishna Ganugapati - Bellevue WA
Margaret K. Johnson - Kirkland WA
Steven G. Judd - Redmond WA
Stuart L. S. Kwan - Bellevue WA
Colin Watson - Issaquah WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1730

707103, 7031041, 709316

The present invention provides a directory service system for accessing a plurality of directory services in a uniform manner. Each directory service manages information relating to objects of that directory service. The type of information that a directory service manages for an object is defined by the object class of the object. An object class defines the properties (i. e. , information) that a directory service manages for objects of that object class. Each property has a property name and property type. A directory service has a property value for each property defined by the object class of each object. The directory service system comprises a schema browsing component, a name resolving component, a binding component, and an extending component. The schema browsing component controls the retrieving of the property name and property type of each property of each object class of each directory service. A client of the directory service system uses the schema browsing component to retrieve property names and property types of the object classes.

6751634, Jun 15, 2004

Aug 26, 1999

09/383445

Steven G. Judd - Redmond WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1200

707200, 707100

The invention describes a system for detecting partial changes to data-structures of interest. If an inter-related set of data items are to be used then it is of value to know that the data items are undergoing changes, and thus may not be self consistent, and/or have been tampered with and/or are not the most recent update. The invention uses GUIDS to track updates by assigning a GUID to a selected set of nodes or items belonging to an identified set, preferably arranged in a tree structure. A new GUID is generated whenever an update takes place. Methods are defined to test that the interrelated data items are valid, i. e. , replicated in toto, by testing for changes in the GUID by traversing the interrelated data items and comparing GUIDs at each node. Similarly, methods are provided for generating a new GUID in course of inititiating an update, or in order to invalidate an intererlated data item set, and additional methods are envisaged for catering to particular applications such as assuring integrity of the data by using encryption and certificates.

7076476, Jul 11, 2006

Mar 2, 1999

09/260703

Steven G. Judd - Redmond WA, US
Andy Harjanto - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707 1, 707 4, 707 10

A system and method of network administration uniformly exposes the administrative interfaces of network services to facilitate network administration. Each service has published, in a network directory service, an object comprising information relevant to the service. An administrative tool is able to harvest information from the object and use it to automatically invoke a service-specific tool. The service-specific tool is able to locate and communicate with the service by using information passed to the service-specific tool from the administrative tool.

7324999, Jan 29, 2008

Jun 14, 2004

10/867452

Steven G. Judd - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30
G06F 7/00

707101, 707204

The invention describes a system for detecting partial changes to data-structures of interest. If an inter-related set of data items are to be used then it is of value to know that the data items are undergoing changes, and thus may not be self consistent, and/or have been tampered with and/or are not the most recent update. The invention uses GUIDS to track updates by assigning a GUID to a selected set of nodes or items belonging to an identified set, preferably arranged in a tree structure. A new GUID is generated whenever an update takes place. Methods are defined to test that the interrelated data items are valid, i. e. , replicated into, by testing for changes in the GUID by traversing the interrelated data items and comparing GUIDs at each node. Similarly, methods are provided for generating a new GUID in course of inititiating an update, or in order to invalidate an intererlated data item set, and additional methods are envisaged for catering to particular applications such as assuring integrity of the data by using encryption and certificates.

5893107, Apr 6, 1999

Jul 1, 1996

8/674318

Chuck Y. Chan - Bellevue WA
Krishna Ganugapati - Bellevue WA
Margaret K. Johnson - Kirkland WA
Steven G. Judd - Redmond WA
Stuart L. S. Kwan - Bellevue WA
Colin Watson - Issaquah WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1730

707103

The present invention provides a directory service system for accessing a plurality of directory services in a uniform manner. Each directory service manages information relating to objects or that directory service. The type of information that a directory service manages for an object is defined by the object class of the object. An object class defines the properties (i. e. , information) that a directory service manages for objects of that object class. Each property has a properly name and property type. A directory service has a property value for each property defined by the object class of each object. The directory service system comprises a schema browsing component, a name resolving component, a binding component, and an extending component. The schema browsing component controls the retrieving of the property name and property type of each property of each object class of each directory service. A client of the directory service system uses the schema browsing component to retrieve property names and property types of the object classes.