Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Balasubramanian Sriram

Anush Kumar

Abhishek Agarwal

Ramachandran Venkatesh

Janaki Ram Goteti

Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed

Jayaram Kalyana Sundaram

Krishnan Gopalan

Bimal Kumar Mehta

Sanjib Saha

Paul Maybee

Lee B Graber

Eldar Azerovich Musayev

Bhuvanesh N Jain

Kevin Bowen Smith

Yossi Levanoni

Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi

Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram

Vamshidhar G R Reddy

Vinod Anantharaman

Sharad Sundaresan

Anil Kumar Prasad

Arunkumar Chacko

Pamela J Scott

Mohamed Fakrudeen Ahmed

A system and method of using metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system is provided. A workload status of a message processing system is determined, and the system polls for a new message according to the workload status. The message processing system identifies a blocked instance and calculates an expected idle time for the blocked instance. The system dehydrates the blocked instance if the expected idle time exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Use of metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system

Use of metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates configuring at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) device. An RFID network can include at least one device associated with a device group, wherein the device group corresponds to a characteristic. An organizational manager can uniformly configure the at least one device based at least in part upon membership of the device group.

RFID device groups

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates utilizing rule-based technology with radio frequency identification (RFID) network. An interface can receive real-time RFID data from a process comprising at least one device collection in the RFID network, wherein a rules engine (RE) component can employ a declarative event policy associated with the RFID network as rules. The RE allows dynamic updates of business logic associated with applications in real-time without the re-start and/or stop the applications. The system and/or method further comprises a vocabulary component that provides terms that defines at least one of the rule, rule condition, and action based at least in part upon an industry specific nomenclature.

Rule-based filtering and alerting

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates receiving data from at least one device. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A batcher component can collect the data based on a start boundary and an end boundary and communicate the batched data to an RFID process.

Support for batching of events, and shredding of batched events in the RFID infrastructure platform

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates implementing an RFID process by providing creation and/or execution of the RFID process as it relates to a provider(s) and the associated devices related to such provider(s). A receiver component can receive information relating to at least one or more providers. An RFID server component can employ the information in connection with providing an RFID process that can be applied generically to a plurality of devices associated with a subset of providers. An RFID engine can process an RFID event including an event processing tree that abstracts a logical entity, wherein the logical entity consists of a logical source can define the RFID process.

RFID server internals design

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates ensuring reliable data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A distribute component can initiate a reliable transaction with the received data to ensure at least one subscribing RFID process utilizes such data.

Support for reliable end to end messaging of tags in an RFID infrastructure

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates employing a security technique to an RFID network. An interface can receive role-based authorization data related to an operating system. A security component can enhance security to at least one of a manipulation of a process and a utilization of a device within the RFID network based at least in part upon role-based authorization data.

Security techniques in the RFID framework

To connect a client application to a server 'server' on a cluster 'cluster' having a plurality of servers instantiated thereon, &#x2018;cluster&#x2019; and &#x2018;server&#x2019; are received from the client application, a first request message is sent to &#x2018;cluster&#x2019; requesting first connection information for connecting to &#x2018;server&#x2019;, a first reply message containing the requested first connection information is received from &#x2018;cluster&#x2019;, and the client application is connected to &#x2018;server&#x2019; on &#x2018;cluster&#x2019; based on the received first connection information. Thereafter, the connection to &#x2018;server&#x2019; fails, and a second request message is sent to &#x2018;cluster&#x2019; requesting second connection information for connecting to &#x2018;server&#x2019;, a second reply message containing the requested second connection information is received from &#x2018;cluster&#x2019;, and the client application is again connected to &#x2018;server&#x2019; on &#x2018;cluster&#x2019; based on the received second connection information.

Seamless fail-over support for virtual interface architecture (VIA) or the like

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates implementing a binding between a radio frequency identification (RFID) process and a device. An RFID process can receive a tag read event from a device and make the tag read event available for at least one high level application. A binding engine can bind the RFID process to the device while decoupling a design time activity and a deployment time activity associated with the RFID process. In addition, the binding engine can include at least one of a device mapping component that employs a device binding; and a component configuration module that employs a component binding.

RFID business process-decoupling of design and deployment time activities

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with a device component to provide uniform communication, discovery, and management. A device service provider interface (DSPI) component can provide a uniform manner to communicate and/or manage a radio frequency identification (RFID) device. The DSPI component can include a receiver component that receives one or more RFID server data and RFID device data. The DSPI component can define an interface that facilitates communication of the one or more of RFID server data and RFID device data between an RFID device and an RFID server in a uniform manner. The interface(s) can be defined to handle discovery, configuration, communication, and connection management.

Device service provider interface

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing communication channels within a radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that can receive data from a tag. A mixed mode component can employ a synchronous command and an asynchronous event processing with the device.

Synchronous command model for RFID-enabling applications

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates extending data within an RFID network to a business application. An interface can receive real-time RFID data from a process with at least one device collection within the RFID network. An integration component can seamlessly expose such real-time RFID data to a business application to achieve a critical business function in real-time. The business application can be associated to a business network that connects applications within a single organization and/or connects applications in different organizations. Moreover, the integration component can allow the business application to manipulate the RFID network based at least in part upon the real-time output.

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Balasubramanian Sriram