Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Constantin Sorin Oprea

Jeffrey P Snover

Bruce Gordon Payette

Anatoliy Burukhin

Rahim Maknojia

Kenneth M Hansen

Narayanan Lakshmanan

Lee Holmes

Hemant Mahawar

Christine Moeller

Miriam Rosenberg

Alexey Soloveychik

A method for managing localized resources displayable during execution of a software product includes receiving a localization build request from a source control platform. The localization build request specifies a unique resource identifier and a resource value for each of multiple displayable resources associated with execution of the software product in a default geographic locale. For each displayable resource, the method further includes determining a relevant recency timestamp based on a build timestamp of the localization build request and retrieving, based on the relevant recency timestamp for the displayable resource, at least one translated resource indexed in association with the relevant recency timestamp. The method still further includes adding the at least one translated resource to a localization build for the software product and returning the localization build to the source control platform.

Cumulative localization architecture

A workflow scripting system is described herein that combines the features of workflows and scripts by automatically translating between the two models. Using the system, a script author can create workflows on the fly using familiar scripting language, and a workflow author can use scripting steps to perform actions. Workflows run in this manner can be setup to execute in their own process to improve robustness or efficiency. Operations in an enterprise environment frequently take a long time and are subject to interruptions. By adding reliability concepts of workflows to a shell environment, users of the system can write scripts to address common needs of large-scale computing environments. Thus, the workflow scripting system blends the available resources provided by workflow and scripting environments to provide a host of powerful, advanced capabilities to IT personnel.

Automatic transcoding and semantic adaptation between scripting and workflow systems

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Constantin Sorin Oprea