Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Johann Posch

Robert George Atkinson

Antony S Williams

Craig Henry Wittenberg

C Douglas Hodges

Alexander A Mitchell

Antonty S Williams

Srinivasa R Koppolu

Victor A Stone

Clark Douglas Hodges

The present invention provides a method and system for multi-threaded processing that is an improvement over conventional systems. The system of the present invention comprises multiple threads of execution, multiple apartments, shared data, and a concurrency management component. The threads of execution run independently and each occupy one apartment. The apartments contain objects that have methods to perform operations. The shared data contains data that is accessible by all threads within the process. The concurrency management mechanism performs processing so that the multiple threads can execute concurrently in a reliable and robust manner. In an alternative system of the present invention, the threads are separate from the apartments and the threads execute within the apartments to perform processing. After performing the processing, the thread exits the apartment so that the apartment may be occupied by another thread.

Method and system for multi-threaded processing

An object-oriented framework unifies retrieval and browsing of data locally and from remote computer networks. The framework includes a class of monikers that operate on behalf of a client program to asynchronously bind or retrieve data referenced by a name without blocking execution of the client. This allows the client to provide responsive user interaction including when remotely retrieving data.

Asynchronous binding of named objects

An improved mechanism for communicating between computer programs is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a computer system has a source computer program, a destination computer program and a communication mechanism for sending a communication from the source computer program to the destination computer program. The communication mechanism contains a concurrency management mechanism for handling events when a communication is pending. The source computer program sends a communication to the destination computer program using the communication mechanism. While the remote communication is pending, the concurrency management mechanism of the preferred embodiment provides concurrency management. The source computer program then receives a reply to the communication from the destination computer program.

Concurrency management component for use by a computer program during

Growing community of inventors

Mercer Island, WA, United States of America

Johann Posch