Inventor: James R. Larus

Address: Mercer Island, WA
No. of patents: 24
Last patent issue date: 12/06/2011

Number	Title	Issue Date
8074231	Configuration of isolated extensions and device drivers In some implementations, the operations of a software system may include the execution of untrusted device drivers. The execution of an untrusted device driver may be initiated when an untrusted device driver that is a set of executable instructions is obtained. A c...	12/06/2011
8032898	Kernel interface with categorized kernel objects Described herein are one or more implementations that separate kernel interfaces functions into those that act on kernel objects owned by a process and accessed exclusively by that process—described herein as local kernel objects—from access to kernel objects ow...	10/04/2011
8020141	Operating-system process construction Described herein is an implementation of a technology for the construction, identity, and/or optimization of operating-system processes. At least one implementation, described herein, constructs an operating-system process having the contents as defined by a process...	09/13/2011
8014308	Hardware architecture for cloud services The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate dynamically allocating resources (e.g., hardware, software, . . . ) supported by a third party service provider. The third party service provider can support any number of services that can b...	09/06/2011
8012023	Virtual entertainment Systems and methods that provide for a virtual reality entertainment system that supplies immersive entertainment and creates a sensation for a user similar to having guests in a remote location to be physically present as virtual guests. Such virtual reality entert...	09/06/2011
7930197	Personal data mining Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal data that can be analyzed in conjunction with data associated with a plurality of other users to provide ...	04/19/2011
7882317	Process isolation using protection domains A first plurality of operating system processes is assigned to a first protection domain, and a second plurality of operating system processes is assigned to a second protection domain. One or more hardware protection mechanisms are used to prevent the first plurali...	02/01/2011
7797453	Resource standardization in an off-premise environment A computing paradigm where information can be aggregated from multiple services/programs within a ‘cloud-based’ environment is provided. Thus, the system can provide a uniform interface that can combine computational tasks across the multiple services/programs. ...	09/14/2010
7788637	Operating system process identification Described herein is an implementation of a technology for the construction, identification, and/or optimization of operating-system processes. At least one implementation, described herein, constructs an operating-system process having the contents as defined by a p...	08/31/2010
7716280	State reflection The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by...	05/11/2010
7716150	Machine learning system for analyzing and establishing tagging trends based on convergence criteria Systems and methods that analyze aggregated tagging behavior of users, and evaluate such tagging trends to identify criteria for taxonomy applications. Initially, existence of a possible trend of tagging data based on collective user behavior is determined. Subseque...	05/11/2010
7703077	Programming model to detect deadlocks in concurrent programs Described are embodiments for developing a message-passing application program. The program is constructed using stages having a plurality of asynchronous functions, or operations. The operations communicate with other operations of other message-passing programs in...	04/20/2010
7694300	Inter-process interference elimination Described herein is an implementation of a technology for the construction, identification, and/or optimization of operating-system processes. At least one implementation, described herein, constructs an operating-system process having the contents as defined by a p...	04/06/2010
7694276	Contracts and futures in an asynchronous programming language An asynchronous programming language that facilitates concurrent programming by utilizing futures, asynchronous calls, and joins on futures. For each of a client interface and a service interface of an asynchronous interface, respective models are automatically extr...	04/06/2010
7689524	Dynamic environment evaluation and service adjustment based on multiple user profiles including data classification and information sharing with authorized other users An intelligent personalized agent monitors, regulates, and advises a user in decision-making processes for efficiency or safety concerns. The agent monitors an environment and present characteristics of a user and analyzes such information in view of stored preferen...	03/30/2010
7680908	State replication The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by...	03/16/2010
7657493	Recommendation system that identifies a valuable user action by mining data supplied by a plurality of users to find a correlation that suggests one or more actions for notification Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal data that can be analyzed in conjunction with data associated with a plurality of other users to provide ...	02/02/2010
7647522	Operating system with corrective action service and isolation The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a part...	01/12/2010
7600232	Inter-process communications employing bi-directional message conduits Described herein is an implementation of an inter-process communications technology. One or more implementations, described herein, facilitate creation of a bi-directional message conduit having exactly two endpoints. A first endpoint is owned by a first software pr...	10/06/2009
7451435	Self-describing artifacts and application abstractions Described herein is at least one implementation employing multiple self-describing software artifacts persisted on one or more computer-storage media of a software-based computer. In this implementation, each artifact is representative of at least part of the softwa...	11/11/2008
7406407	Virtual machine for operating N-core application on M-core processor A virtual machine is instantiated on an M-core processor, and an N-core application is instantiated on the virtual machine such that the virtual machine emulates an N-core processor to the N-core application. Thus, the virtual machine hides difference between the N ...	07/29/2008
7137116	Method and system for performing a task on a computer A method and system for performing a task on a computer is provided, in which the procedure is organized into multiple stages. Each stage of the task has an associated sub-task. Requests for the procedure are represented by “work packets” that stored in a holdin...	11/14/2006
6360361	Field reordering to optimize cache utilization Fields which are individually addressable data elements in data structures are reordered to improve the efficiency of cache line access. Temporal data regarding the referencing of such fields is obtained, and a tool is used to construct a field affinity g...	03/19/2002
6327699	Whole program path profiling A program is instrumented to record acyclic paths during execution of the program. A whole program path is produced from the record and provides a complete compact record of a program's entire control flow. It includes a record of crossing loop boundaries...	12/04/2001

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