MICHAEL NELSON BROWN, MD
Psychiatric in Bellevue, WA

2010005, Mar 4, 2010

Sep 3, 2008

12/203852

Won Suk Yoo - Redmond WA, US
Anil K. Ruia - Issaquah WA, US
Michael E. Brown - Issaquah WA, US
William James Staples - Duvall WA, US
Himanshu Kamarajbhai Patel - Redmond WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709203

The routing of requests in a shared hosting environment. The shared hosting environment includes a network farm of servers, each capable of processing the request corresponding to the host name. When a request is received, a router determines whether or not there is already a host name affinitization of subset of the servers to the host name corresponding to the request. If so, the message is dispatched to one of those affinitized servers. If not, one or more of the servers are affinitized to the host name to create a subset of affinitized server(s) for that host name. Different host names may have different subsets of servers that they are affinitized to. Over time, the affinitization may be terminated as appropriate.

2008010, May 1, 2008

Oct 25, 2006

11/552923

Kanwaljeet Singla - Seattle WA, US
Mete Goktepe - Redmond WA, US
Michael E. Brown - Issaquah WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 9/44

717120

In one embodiment of this invention, a computer system performs a method for validating a software build before check-in. A computer system accesses an existing software build of a software application that includes one or more existing binary files. The computer system accesses one or more updated binary files from a computer user. The computer system overwrites appropriate existing binary files in the existing software build with corresponding updated binary files for the updated binary files package. The overwriting included incorporating the updated binary files into the existing build of the software application without having to generate a new build of the software application. The computer system evaluates the functionality of the updated existing software build, wherein evaluating includes determining whether at least the updated binary files satisfy a threshold level of functionality. The computer system generates a report representing the results of the functionality evaluation.

2009032, Dec 31, 2009

Jun 27, 2008

12/163941

Won Suk Yoo - Redmond WA, US
Anil K. Ruia - Issaquah WA, US
Michael E. Brown - Issaquah WA, US
William J. Staples - Duvall WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173, G06F 15/177

709221, 709226

An application request router that routes incoming application message to various servers in a network farm, even though the original network request itself does not directly specify which server is to handle the request. The application request routing module uses intra-farm routing policy and characteristics of the request itself to identify which of the servers is to handle the message and then dispatches the message to the appropriate server. This allows a user to reconfigure the network farm by reconfiguring the capabilities of the servers in the network farm, and then altering the routing policy accordingly to take advantage of the reconfigured network farm capabilities.

2009032, Dec 31, 2009

Jun 27, 2008

12/163934

Won Suk Yoo - Redmond WA, US
Anil K. Ruia - Issaquah WA, US
Michael E. Brown - Issaquah WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709221

Dynamically upsizing and/or downsizing a network farm in response to network demand. An application message router routes messages to the network farm. When the network farm approaches or is anticipated to be approaching capacity, a group of one or more servers may be added to the network farm. When the added server(s) are capable of participating in the network farm, the application message router is triggered to route also to the added servers. When the network farm has excess capacity, a group of one or more servers may be dropped from the network farm. This may be accomplished by triggering the application message router to no longer route messages to the removed servers. The removed servers may be either immediately or gracefully removed from service.