Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alexei Vopilov

Jerry Jay Dunietz

Andrey Shur

David Ornstein

Matthew James Ruhlen

Sarjana Sheth

Bruce A MacKenzie

Nicholas Michael Simons

Young Gah Kim

Mark Fields

Kenneth John Yuhas, Jr

Christopher Von Hansen

Yanlin Peng

Marc Christopher Ramsey

Kenneth J Yuhas

Mark Timothy Fields

An external service application discovery process that connects a host with an external application server running a service application allowing a user of a client computing device to work with a file via a web browser. The host brokers the functionality of an external application server and serves as the platform where interactions between the client computing device and the external application server occur. An open interface protocol, which is a shared communication protocol, allows the host to communicate instructions from the client computing device to the external application server. Through the external service application discovery process, the external application server describes functionality provided by the service application to the host. The host selectively makes the functionality provided by the service application available to users based on the level of implementation of the open platform interface and the conventions of the external service application discovery process understood by the host.

External service application discovery method

The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing access to individual resources stored within a package. The system enables a client to access the resources without having to access the entire package. The system allows a client to reference the different resources within the package through use of a URI scheme. The URI scheme of the present invention is composed through a method of combining the URI for the package and the URI for the resource. The URI scheme of the present invention is able to work with any scheme, thereby enabling the URI scheme to be universal and not protocol-specific.

Pack URI scheme to identify and reference parts of a package

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Alexei Vopilov