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Farhan Ahmed, Seattle, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100241660RETRIEVAL OF METADATA FOR PERIPHERAL DEVICES - Techniques whereby a client computer may request metadata relating to a peripheral device from one or more server computers are provided. Upon connecting to a peripheral device, the client computer receives information identifying the device, and generates a query, using the received information, for metadata relating to the device. The client computer may, for example, first attempt to execute the query locally to determine if metadata appropriate for use (e.g., not outdated) is stored on the client computer. If not, the client computer may issue the query to one or more server computers which stores metadata received from manufacturers and/or suppliers of peripheral devices. The one or more server computers may issue a response making the requested metadata available to the client computer and providing instructions relating to subsequent requests from the client computer, so as to manage the processing load borne by the one or more server computers. The client computer may employ the metadata to present a graphical interface that enables the user to manage the device.09-23-2010

Haroon Ahmed, Bellevue, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100088274SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A REPOSITORY WITH A DECLARATIVE DEFINTION - The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for synchronizing a repository with a declarative definition. The method and system includes receiving the declarative definition in which the declarative definition represents a constraint-based execution model. A script is also created that translates the declarative definition into machine code. At least one function is then performed on the repository in which the script provides instructions for the at least one function.04-08-2010
20100088283SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATABASE APPLICATIONS - The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for managing a database application. The method and system include receiving a deployment package, which includes deployed objects of a declarative execution model and defining a plurality of data structures extracted from the deployment package such that at least one data structure populates an extended catalog. The deployed objects are then stored in a manner consistent with the plurality of data structures.04-08-2010
20100088350PACKAGING SYSTEM TO FACILITATE DECLARATIVE MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT - The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for packaging a post-processed definition of a programming module. Contents of a constraint-based and/or order-independent execution model are received, in which the contents include a declarative source code. The contents are stored into an extensible storage abstraction such that the source code is stored in a declarative format. Metadata describing attributes of the contents stored in the extensible storage abstraction is also defined. A file is then created, which includes the extensible storage abstraction and the metadata.04-08-2010
20100088685SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING A DOMAIN MODELING LANGUAGE TO A RELATIONAL STORE - A method and system for mapping between constructs in a domain modeling language and a relational storage language is provided. A source code authored in a source language is received and a set of constructs in the source code are identified. The set of constructs in the source code are mapped to a set of constructs in a target language. The source code is then compiled into a target code authored in the target language such that one of the source code or target code include a declarative constraint-based and/or order-independent execution model.04-08-2010
20100250623GENERIC EDITOR FOR DATABASES - Facilitating generic database editing to allow for data to be received from a user for entry into a database without requiring the data to conform to schema constraints for the database. A method includes examining a first schema for a first database. The first schema including a first set of constraints specified in the first schema on data to be entered into the first database. The method further includes, based on the examination, constructing a second database corresponding to the first database. The second database is associated with a second schema with a second set of constraints. The second set of constraints is a relaxed version of the first set of constraints specified in the first schema.09-30-2010
20110099188DATA FRAMEWORK TO ENABLE RICH PROCESSING OF DATA FROM ANY ARBITRARY DATA SOURCE - Accessing data in a data store at a field granularity. A method includes receiving a query from a user. The query specifies one or more non-unique fields of a record. The method further includes sending the query to a data store to retrieve the fields of the record at a field granularity. The method further includes receiving data for the one or more non-unique fields of the record at a field granularity.04-28-2011
20110307524UNIFIED CONCURRENT CHANGES TO DATA, SCHEMA, AND APPLICATION - Changes are managed in a multi-user database application environment. Proposed changes are collected, including changes to data, schema, and/or application descriptions. A user may specify foreign key relationships between items belonging to one or more of these categories. A view is produced showing the impact proposed changes would have on the environment if successfully committed. The user's proposed changes are ordered according to their dependencies, and submitted for committal together in a single transaction, subject to optimistic concurrency and consistency checks. For example, a proposed change to a data value may be inconsistent with a change which removed a data element containing the data value. The commitment operation may return identifiers and other return values, in addition to indicating whether the commitment was successful.12-15-2011

Patent applications by Haroon Ahmed, Bellevue, WA US

Haseeb Ahmed, Redmond, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120102504APPLICATION LIFETIME MANAGEMENT - In a computing device running multiple applications, a check is made as to whether a threshold value of multiple threshold values has been met. Each of the multiple threshold values is associated with a characteristic of one of the multiple applications or a characteristic of a resource of the computing device. If the threshold value has not been met, then the multiple applications are allowed to continue running on the computing device. However, if the threshold value has been met, then one or more of the multiple applications to shut down is selected based at least in part on the characteristic associated with the threshold value that has been met, and the selected application is shut down.04-26-2012

Junaid Ahmed, Redmond, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110295844ENHANCING FRESHNESS OF SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for improving the freshness, or the apparent freshness, of search results are described. In an embodiment, the first portion of search results presented on a search results page are based on responsiveness to the search query and a second portion of results describe only recently published documents that are responsive to the search query. In an embodiment, a more recent version of the document, which is not directly used to determine responsiveness, is used to build the caption for a search result. Another way to make search results appear fresh is to include a publication time within the search result caption. In one embodiment, the publication time is generated by calculating a point in time between when a document is first added to a search index and the previous time the search engine visited the site where the document was found.12-01-2011

Junaid Ahmed, Bellevue, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120047121CONTENT SIGNATURE NOTIFICATION - A client application installed on end user computers generates metadata from the content of web pages visited by end users and provides the metadata to a search engine. When an end user visits a web page, the end user's computer downloads and displays the web page to the end user. The client application may simultaneously access the web page content and generate this metadata in the form of a content signature of the web page from the web page content. The client application then provides the content signature to a search engine. The search engine may employ content signatures to identify new web pages to crawl and index. Additionally, the search engine may employ content signatures to identify changes to web pages and determine the crawl frequency of web pages.02-23-2012

Khaja E. Ahmed, Bellevue, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090193093REDUCING UNWANTED AND UNSOLICITED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BY EXCHANGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION POLICIES AND SOLVING AND VERIFYING SOLUTIONS TO COMPUTATIONAL PUZZLES - The present invention provides for generating inputs that can be provided to a message classification module to facilitate more reliable classification of electronic messages, such as, for example, as unwanted and/or unsolicited. In one embodiment, a sending messaging server provides an appropriate response to address verification data thereby indicating a reduced likelihood of the sending messaging server using a forged network address. In another embodiment, it is determined if a messaging server is authorized to send electronic messages for a domain. In yet another embodiment, electronic message transmission policies adhered to by a domain are identified. In yet a further embodiment, a sending computer system expends computational resources to solve a computational puzzle and includes an answer document in an electronic message. A receiving computer system receives the electronic message and verifies the answer document.07-30-2009
20090320099Content Retrieval - Content retrieval techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made as to whether a client is permitted to receive content requested by the client. When the client is permitted to receive the content, a communication is formed to be communicated via a wide area network that includes a hash list having a hash of each of a plurality of blocks of the content, each hash being configured to enable the client to locate a corresponding one of the blocks of the content via a local area network.12-24-2009
20090327505Content Identification for Peer-to-Peer Content Retrieval - Described is a technology in which client content requests to a server over a wide area network (WAN) are responded to with hash information by which the client may locate the content among one or more peer sources coupled to the client via a local area network (LAN). The hash information may be in the form of a segment hash that identifies multiple blocks of content, whereby the server can reference multiple content blocks with a single hash value. Segment boundaries may be adaptive by determining them according to criteria, by dividing streamed content into segments, and/or by processing the content based on the content data (e.g., via RDC or content/application type) to determine split points. Also described is content validation using the hash information, including by generating and walking a Merkle tree to determine higher-level segment hashes in order to match a server-provided hash value.12-31-2009
20110173699NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION WITH DISTRIBUTED CORRELATION - A network security system employing multiple levels of processing to identify security threats. Multiple host machines may each contain an agent that detects possibilities of security threats based on raw data sensed locally at that host. The hosts may share information obtained from local analysis and each host may use information generated at one or more other hosts, in combination with information generated locally, to identify a security concern, indicating with greater certainty that a security threat exists. Based on security concerns generated by multiple hosts, a security threat may be indicated and protective action may be taken.07-14-2011
20110295948CONTENT IDENTIFICATION FOR PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT RETRIEVAL - Described is a technology in which client content requests to a server over a wide area network (WAN) are responded to with hash information by which the client may locate the content among one or more peer sources coupled to the client via a local area network (LAN). The hash information may be in the form of a segment hash that identifies multiple blocks of content, whereby the server can reference multiple content blocks with a single hash value. Segment boundaries may be adaptive by determining them according to criteria, by dividing streamed content into segments, and/or by processing the content based on the content data (e.g., via RDC or content/application type) to determine split points. Also described is content validation using the hash information, including by generating and walking a Merkle tree to determine higher-level segment hashes in order to match a server-provided hash value.12-01-2011
20120079569FEDERATED MOBILE AUTHENTICATION USING A NETWORK OPERATOR INFRASTRUCTURE - Architecture that utilizes the strong authentication mechanisms of network operators to provide authentication to mobile applications by identity federation. When a mobile client initiates request for access to an application outside the network operation infrastructure, the request is passed to an associated application secure token service. The application secure token service has an established trust and identity federation with the network operator. The application secure token service redirects the request to a network operator security token server, which then passes the request to a network operator authentication server for authentication against an operator identity service. Proof of authentication is then issued and returned from the network operator security token server to the application secure token service and the application, which allows the mobile client to access the application.03-29-2012
20120084851TRUSTWORTHY DEVICE CLAIMS AS A SERVICE - Embodiments of the invention make the issuance of trustworthy device claims available to client devices as a service, so that a client device to which device claims are issues may use the device claims in relation to an attempt to access a network application. The service may conduct an assessment of the device's characteristics and/or state, characterize the results of this assessment in device claims, and issue the device claims to the device. The service may be accessible to a client device from outside administrative boundaries of an entity that makes a network application accessible, and thus may be useful to entities making network applications accessible in business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) topologies, such as over the publicly accessible Internet.04-05-2012

Patent applications by Khaja E. Ahmed, Bellevue, WA US

Muzammil Ahmed, Seattle, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110246216Online Pre-Registration for Patient Intake - Described herein are techniques for enabling a patient to pre-register for a medical visit to a healthcare facility (e.g., a hospital) online. Also described herein are techniques that enable a hospital staff to pre-process a patient's pre-registration intake forms before the patient arrives for the medical visit at the healthcare facility. With some of the described techniques, the patient's pre-registration intake forms may have been customized to match the needs and desires of the healthcare facility, its departments, and/or the healthcare providers (e.g., nurses, physicians, etc.) taking care of the patient during the visit.10-06-2011
20110246230Identity Matching And Information Linking - A connection component establishes an identity of a person for permitting access to information in a database. Responsive to establishing the identity of the person, the connection component may link an external account to the information in the database for providing a flow of information between the database and the external account.10-06-2011
20110246231ACCESSING PATIENT INFORMATION - A connection component generates a user interface for display to a patient computing device. The user interface provides the patient computing device with access to hospital visit records of the patient maintained in a hospital database. The user interface may further receive selection of a care provider by the patient for granting the care provider electronic access to the patient's hospital visit records.10-06-2011

Nadir Ahmed, Redmond, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080201465Centralized Monitoring of Distributed Systems - A remote server managing multiple client computers at a customer site communicates with a server at a service provider site. A proxy gateway at the remote server allows communications through a network to the server at the service provider site. Remote monitoring of the multiple client computers may be performed at the server at the service provider site through a central monitoring console.08-21-2008

Nazeer Ahmed, Kirkland, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080242415MOTION-BASED INPUT FOR PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS - The flexible motion system simplifies the process of adding motion-based input to an application. The flexible motion system uses a motion detection device to detect motion based on the movement of an object. Next, the flexible motion system converts the motion detected by the motion detection device into input recognized by the application, and provides this input to the application. The motion may be converted using a grammar specified by an application developer through an updateable action pack.10-02-2008

Syed Nadir Ahmed, Redmond, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080281958Unified Console For System and Workload Management - Disclosed are systems and methods for implementing a unified console for managing computing-based devices. Described is a unified management solution to efficiently manage one or more workloads or a plurality of tasks performed by a user for managing the resources of applications in a computer network that includes the computing-based devices. The system can be implemented by providing a combined functionality that includes features of monitoring and update services, in a single console.11-13-2008