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Charles T Fitzgerald

Mark H Lucovsky

Amit Mital

Joseph D Belfiore

Eric D Rudder

David G Campbell

Tandy Woodson Trower, Ii

Keith W Short

Steven M Cellini

Tandy W Trower, Ii

Steve Capps

Kaviraj Singh

Vivek Gundotra

Peter M Spiro

David Vaskevitch

Paul A Maritz

Paul Martiz

A server federation cooperatively interacts to fulfill service requests by communicating using data structures that follow a schema in which the meaning of the communicated data is implied by the schema. Thus, in addition to the data being communicated, the meaning of the data is also communication allowing for intelligent decisions and inferences to be made based on the meaning of the data. Cooperative interaction is facilitated over a wide variety of networks by messaging through a common API that supports multiple transport mechanisms. Also, mid-session transfer between client devices is facilitated by schema and the transport-independent messaging structure. The user interfaces of the client devices will appear consistent even if the client devices have different user interface capabilities.

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