Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Edward G Sheppard

Michael Eric Deem

Michael Pizzo

Lijiang Fang

Jian H Li

Winnie C Wu

Michael B Taylor

Benjamin Albahari

Ramesh Nagarajan

Arthur T Whitten

Maxim S Lukiyanov

Hor Siu Ivan Han

Embodiments are provided to utilize an orthogonal or independent programming component to rapidly develop new features for use in computer application programs through the testing of new application program concepts on a server. In one embodiment, the orthogonal programming component intercepts a request to access an application program stored on the server and, if the request meets certain predefined criteria, sends the request to a treatment component to implement the new application concepts without changes having to be made to the application program stored on the server.

Rapid application innovation utilizing an orthogonal programming component

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a storage platform comprising: a data store in which data stored therein is defined in terms of items, elements, and relationships, wherein an item is a unit of data storable in the data store and comprises one or more elements, an element is an instance of a type comprising one or more fields, and a relationship is a link between at least two items; a set of schemas that define different types of items, elements, and relationships; and an application programming interface comprising a class for each of the different items, elements, and relationships defined in the set of schemas. Data may also be stored in the data store in the form of an extension to an existing item type, and wherein the application programming interface comprises a class for each different item extension.

Systems and methods for interfacing application programs with an item-based storage platform

A computer determines whether an original query expressed in an initial query language includes clauses unsupported by a target query language. If so, the computer separates the original query into a client-side query and one or more server-side queries. The computer then determines whether the client-side query is efficient. If so, the computer translates the one or more server-side queries into one or more supplemental queries expressed in the target query language and receives server-side result sets for the supplemental queries. The computer generates a client-side result set by querying the server-side result sets using the client-side query. The computer returns the client-side result set as a result set of the original query. If the client-side query is not efficient, the computer returns an error message. Thus, by identifying inefficient queries, the computer effectively controls (i.e., throttles) the amount of work performed by the computer to process queries.

Query throttling during query translation

An application program interface (API) for a data platform. The API includes a generic data access component that exposes at least one of stores, sessions, transactions, and query services of the data platform, which data platform is associated with a data store. A data classes component of the API provides canonical, application-independent classes that expose types and relationships of a data model of the data platform. The API includes a domain data classes component of application-specific and framework-specific classes that expose domain-specific properties and behaviors of the data platform. The data platform can be a common data platform that interfaces to the data store to provide data services accessible by a plurality of disparate application frameworks, which data services allow a corresponding application of the different frameworks to access the data store.

Storage API for a common data platform

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Mercer Island, WA, United States of America

Edward G Sheppard