Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Peter M Spiro

David G Campbell

Mark H Lucovsky

Amit Mital

Joseph D Belfiore

Eric D Rudder

Tandy Woodson Trower, Ii

Keith W Short

Steven M Cellini

Steve Capps

Kaviraj Singh

Vivek Gundotra

Charles T Fitzgerald

David Vaskevitch

Paul A Maritz

Anil Kumar Nori

Pedro Celis

Quentin J Clark

Tandy W Trower, Ii

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.

Distributed computing services platform

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a storage platform comprising a database engine, a data store, an application programming interface. The data store is implemented on the database engine for storing data therein, and the data store implements a data model that supports the organization, searching, sharing, synchronization, and security of data stored in the data store. Specific types of data are described in schemas. The application programming interface enables application programs to access services and capabilities of the storage platform and to access the data described in the schemas. The storage platform supports interoperability with existing file systems, enables users and systems to synchronize data stored in different instances of the data store, and provides the ability for application programs to be notified about and to track changes made to the data in the data store.

Storage platform for organizing, searching, and sharing data

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Peter M Spiro