Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Andrew L Nicholson

Marc Shepard

David Michael Sauntry

Upender Sandadi

David S Bakin

Evan J Schrier

Thomas A Vaughan

Robert J Williams

David S Kosbie

Michael J Glass

An electrical receptacle and junction box apparatus including a stud mounted electrical junction box with stud-attaching screw shoulders having wire apertures with retaining screws and retaining screw fittings for each wire aperture for receiving electrical wiring without wrapping the wiring around screws, a ground strip, a slide-in receptacle or slide-in switch received in the electrical junction box, an electrical connection between the electrical junction box and the slide-in receptacle or slide-in switch unit with elongated prongs, slotted terminals with slot apertures to allow the slide-in receptacle or slide-in switch to move in and out of the electrical junction box and non-conductive bases for embedding the terminals, the ground strip and the retaining screw fittings.

Electrical receptacle and box apparatus

A dynamic and personalized system for organizing data is disclosed. The system provides users the ability to organize addressable information by creating associations between the information independent from the information and from any other previously imposed organization of the information. The associations contain trigger and target addresses, and relationship between the data. A view in the association identifies how to interpret the relationship. Tools are provided to manage the associations, and several applications of the organization system are described such as associating personal notes, serial construction of documents, compound construction of documents, and group construction of documents.

Dynamic personalized information organizer

Methods, functional components and structures are disclosed for carrying out management of client/server processes operating within separate process spaces within a computer system. The disclosed methods, functional components facilitate and carry out management of client and server processes within a computer system such that a greater degree of control can be exhibited over their execution. An active server component process maintains a list structure identifying each client process that is currently using one of the server component process's interfaces. When a new client references a server, the list structure is augmented to include the system identification (e.g., handle) assigned by the operating system to the client process. A thread within the server process blocks while awaiting a triggering event (e.g., a client process in the list terminates). When the client process terminates, the block on the thread releases and the thread processes the change in client references. If the list of clients within the structure reaches zero, then the server process can immediately terminate.

Method and system for effective management of client and server processes

Automated generation of schema and interface methods is described. The system receives a schema definition file, which in one aspect of the system is an XML file. The system parses the schema definition file into an internal representation comprising collection classes. A SQL generator traverses the collection classes and generates SQL statements that define tables, views and stored procedures. A component generator traverses the collection classes and generates computer program source code implementing components that access properties defined in the schema definition data, and methods that provide for persistent storage of the objects in a database.

Automated schema and interface generation

A method and apparatus are described for dynamically re-configuring bound adaptors on a networked computer capable of connecting to a plurality of networks via a plurality of adaptors including a WAN adaptor and a LAN adaptor. When a WAN link is activated by an incoming call, the networked computer is configured to be a router of packets between the WAN and LAN adaptors. When a WAN link is activated by an outgoing call, the networked computer logically disconnects from all adaptors except the activated WAN adaptor.

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Duvall, WA, United States of America

Andrew L Nicholson