Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Edward Scott Miller

Shan Xu

Gregory Wilson

Michael Ginsberg

Sharad Mathur

Wesley Allan Witt

Michael J Thomson

Roberto Cazzaro

Bjorn C Retting

Arul A Meneze

Bassam Tabbara

Jeffrey Bruce Parham

Bhalchandra Pandit

Matthew H Holle

Bjorn Christian Rettig

Jeffrey C Stamerjohn

Evgueni Salnikov

Aaron Szafer

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for processing identity constraints in a relational database. Values are extracted from an XML document during a submit operation. References that potentially participate in an identity constraint are identified. The reference information is stored. An identity constraint graph is generated from the stored reference information. Techniques for facilitating key-sequence comparisons are described. Techniques for identifying violations to identity constraints are described. Techniques for identifying which identity constraint graphs are affected by a new or changed document are described.

Processing identity constraints in a data store

In one example, a client and a server may communicate with each other using a control channel and a data channel. The control channel carries requests from the client to the server, and the data channel carries the server's response to these requests. Some requests submitted on the control channel may be assigned identifiers, so as to be addressable. A client may submit, over the control channel, a request to cancel previously-made requests. A cancelation request uses the identifiers associated with the previously-made requests to identify the request(s) to be canceled. The client may open the control and data channels by issuing POST and GET requests, respectively, to the server. Control channel communications may then be sent as part of the POST message, and data channel communications may be sent as responses to the GET request.

Multi-channel communication with request reordering or reprioritization

An image file format and a method of creating and restoring an image file is provided by the present invention. The image file format includes a plurality of streams such as a control stream, a data stream, a bitmap stream, and a cluster map stream. An audit trail stream, properties stream and fix-up stream may also be provided. The present invention allows the contents of a storage media to be captured and stored as an image file. The image file is used to restore the storage media to a previous state or allows multiple computers to be provided with a common configuration. The plurality of streams further allow the image file to be viewed, edited or otherwise manipulated.

Method and system for creating and restoring an image file

In an operating system, a resource handler accepts resource requests from application modules. A resource request identifies a module from which the requested resource is to be obtained. Rather than providing the resource from the identified module, however, the resource handler provides the requested resource from an associated resource module. An association between an executable module and resource modules of different languages is created by a defined file naming convention, optionally using different directories for resource modules of different languages. Some executable modules contain a shared resource reference which can be used to create an association between multiple executable modules and a single set of shared resource modules. A language fallback mechanism allows alternative languages to be used where resource modules of the appropriate language are not available.

Multilingual user interface for an operating system

A system and method for generating a unique identifier for a computer system is disclosed. A master computer system is prepared for duplication and configured to execute a startup program on the next boot-up sequence. The master computer system is then shut down and duplicated. On the first boot-up of the copy or &ldquo;clone&rdquo; computer system, a new unique identifier is created and used to replace all instances of the old unique identifier that was associated with the master computer system. Finally, a setup wizard component is executed to finish configuring the clone computer system in accordance with the customer's personal information making the system ready for commercial use.

Replacing a unique identifier in a cloned computer system using program module that runs only once during the next boot sequence

In an operating system, a function to address resources in executable files is modified to redirect calls for resources to language-specific resources responsively to a user-setting defining a selected language. The language-specific resources are contained in alternate language modules through a dynamic addressing scheme that allows the alternate language file suite to be expanded without modification to any central routing facility. The invention provides resource-handling components the capability for handling multiple-language resources without requiring any specific directions from the processes requesting the resources This allows the operating system to provide multilingual support while using existing resource and executable binary files without modification. A user is enabled to select a language for the user interface and the resource loader will automatically redirect calls for resources to the appropriate resources.

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Edward Scott Miller