JOHN L. SHEPARD, P.A.C.
Physician Assistant at Lilly Rd, Olympia, WA

8082555, Dec 20, 2011

Feb 21, 2006

11/358335

Charles Aaron Hare - Redmond WA, US
John A. Shepard - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 13/00, G06F 9/44

719328, 717122, 717170

A dynamic proxy object is disclosed that is capable of intercepting calls from a calling object to a target object. The dynamic proxy can imitate the target object so that even though the calling object may be of a different version or type from the target object, it can still communicate with the target object. Specifically, the dynamic proxy can intercept early bound invocation by the calling object, obtain metadata from these invocations, and pass it to an adapter via a set of reflective interfaces. The adapter can also obtain metadata from the target object via late bound invocations, and then compare this metadata to the metadata provided by the dynamic proxy in order to make a determination whether or not the calling object and the target object should be communicating. If so, communication can occur between the calling and target objects in spite of differing versioning or object types.

2010016, Jun 24, 2010

Mar 8, 2010

12/719342

Jackson M. Davis - Bothell WA, US
John A. Shepard - Seattle WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

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

719316, 719315

A remote procedure call channel for interprocess communication in a managed code environment ensures thread-affinity on both sides of an interprocess communication. Using the channel, calls from a first process to a second process are guaranteed to run on a same thread in a target process. Furthermore, calls from the second process back to the first process will also always execute on the same thread. An interprocess communication manager that allows thread affinity and reentrancy is able to correctly keep track of the logical thread of execution so calls are not blocked in unmanaged hosts. Furthermore, both unmanaged and managed hosts are able to make use of transparent remote call functionality provided by an interprocess communication manager for the managed code environment.

7530079, May 5, 2009

Sep 7, 2006

11/470863

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

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 13/00

719320, 717100, 717101, 717106, 717120

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.

2008012, May 29, 2008

Sep 7, 2006

11/470896

Paul Stubbs - Redmond WA, US
Eric S. Schnepp - Woodinville WA, US
Peter J. Torr - Redmond WA, US
John A. Shepard - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 9/44

717106

A facility is provided for controlling application features. In various embodiments, the facility assembles an indication of features, starts a controlled application, and provides the assembled indication of features to the controlled application so that the controlled application can disable a feature of the controlled application. The facility can include a controlling application that is adapted for assembling a set of tokens that identify features by adding or removing tokens when a user of the controlling application selects a command associated with the controlling application, and a controlled application that, when invoked by the controlling application and provided the assembled set of tokens, controls a feature of the controlled application based on the assembled set of tokens.

2008012, May 29, 2008

Sep 7, 2006

11/470959

Jackson M. Davis - Bothell WA, US
Paul Stubbs - Redmond WA, US
John A. Shepard - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 9/45

717106

A facility is provided for enabling an application proxy that is capable of customizing an integrated development environment to execute in-process with the integrated development environment. In various embodiments, the facility loads a project file, determines whether the project file indicates an application proxy, and when the project file indicates an application proxy, loads the application proxy so that the application proxy can customize the integrated development environment based on configuration settings. In various embodiments, the facility includes a project file associated with an application, an application proxy component, and an integrated development environment that loads the application proxy component when loading the project file so that the application proxy component can handle communications between the integrated development environment and the application to customize the integrated development environment for use with the application.