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Flexible metadata composition

US8433697B2 · kind B2 · utility

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17References

20Claims

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Lawrence W. Osterman · Woodinville, US
Harold L. Pierson, III · Redmond, US
Elliot H. Omiya · Kirkland, US
Martyn S. Lovell · Seattle, US
Mahesh Prakriya · Redmond, US
Stephen C. Rowe · Bellevue, US
Tassaduq Basu · Redmond, US
Robert A. Wlodarczyk · Issaquah, US
Wei Zeng · Sammamish, US
Neeraj N. Wadhwa · Kirkland, US
Shakeel I. Solkar · Sammamish, US
Michael Aksionkin · Kirkland, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 10, 2011
Grant date	Apr 30, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 3, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/166
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.

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