William D. Devlin
Microsoft
13 Papers
632 Citations
William D. Devlin is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: User interface & Programming paradigm. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
Patent
Declarative and programmatic access control of component-based server applications using roles
Patrick J. Helland,Rodney T. Limprecht,Mohsen Al-Ghosein,David R. Reed,William D. Devlin +4 more
- 28 Oct 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, a programming model for component-based server applications provides declarative and programmatic access control at development without knowledge of the security configuration at deployment, where the developer defines the server application access control by defining logical classes of users, called roles.
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Method and apparatus enabling migration of clients to a specific version of a server-hosted application, where multiple software versions of the server-hosted application are installed on a network
Shaiwal Singh,William D. Devlin,John Eric Gilbert,Dave Tamasi +3 more
- 01 Feb 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method and apparatus enabling migration of clients to a specific version of a server-hosted application, where multiple software versions of the server hosted application are installed on the network, such that clients using the application experience minimal downtime related to upgrades and revisions of the application.
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System and method providing virtual applications architecture
Philippe Choquier,Quentin J. Clark,William D. Devlin,Lara N. Dillingham,Cameron J. A. Ferroni,Justin Grant,Rodney T. Limprecht,John F. Ludeman,Alexander E. Mallet,Boyd C. Multerer,Martin J. Sleeman,Michael W. Thomas +11 more
- 20 Jul 2005
TL;DR: In this article, a virtual applications architecture is presented, which includes a topology manager for managing applications across a plurality of members, and a virtual application manager for defining a pluralityof resources comprising the applications.
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Patent
Catalog management system architecture having data table objects and logic table objects
Robert M. Craig,William D. Devlin +1 more
- 22 May 2002
TL;DR: An abstraction layer in a catalog management system for accessing system configuration information is presented in this article, where the configuration information that is stored in a datastore to a computer process by storing the information in cache memory so that the dataastore is encapsulated from the caller.
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Mesh-managing data across a distributed set of devices
George P. Moromisato,Noah Edelstein,Abhay Parasnis,Anthony D. Andrews,Raymond E. Ozzie,William D. Devlin,Akash J. Sagar +6 more
- 01 May 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a mesh where data files, applications and corresponding user interfaces are stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh, such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information.
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