Interface infrastructure for a continuation based runtime

US9354847B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Kenneth D. Wolf · Seattle, US
• Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto · Duvall, US
• Robert B. Schmidt · Carlsbad, US
• Donald F. Box · Bellevue, US
• Geoffrey M. Kizer · Seattle, US
• Nathan C. Talbert · Seattle, US
• Kavita Kamani · Redmond, US
• Alberto Arias Maestro · Bellevue, US
• David Robert Cliffe · Bellevue, US
• Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath · Redmond, US
• HongMei Ge · Issaquah, US
• Stephen Jared Maine · Seattle, US
• Alexander Martin DeJarnatt · Newport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2008
• Grant date: May 31, 2016
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/313
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Namespace for continuation-based runtime. Some embodiments described herein are directed to a framework using continuation based runtime namespaces that pertain to an infrastructure for enabling the creation of a wide variety of continuation-based programs that perform a wide-array of tasks. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building continuation-based, declarative applications of various scale and complexity. In some embodiments, the associated application programming interfaces (APIs) are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility, and versionability.