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Steven M Cellini

Mark H Lucovsky

Amit Mital

Joseph D Belfiore

Eric D Rudder

David G Campbell

Tandy Woodson Trower, Ii

Keith W Short

Steve Capps

Vivek Gundotra

Peter M Spiro

Kaviraj Singh

Charles T Fitzgerald

David Vaskevitch

David Robert Shutt

Paul A Maritz

Wei-Quiang Michael Guo

Roy A Leban

Christopher E Mitchell

Tandy W Trower, Ii

Daniel Doubrovkine

Sachin Kukreja

Barry I Kelman

Jonathan P Horton

Paul Martiz

Sylvia K Mollerstrom

A user profile having consent information regarding a network server for a second party is created. Such consent information is received from a first party and stored in the user profile of the second party. The second party may access the network server if the consent information stored in the user profile of the second party shows that the first party has provided consent. The second party may not access the network server if the consent information stored in the user profile of the second party shows that the first party has denied consent.

Parental consent service

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

A system and method for delegating at least one administrative duty associated with namespace management from an authentication system to at least one administration system. An application programming interface provides communication between the authentication system and the administration system. The authentication system receives a request from the administration system, verifies the authority of the request, and performs the action(s) specified in the request to manage a namespace.

Delegated administration of namespace management

In an interface-based binary object system capable of supporting multiple interfaces into objects created by class templates, a repository of stored object states is formed that can be accessed by later created objects. Such later created objects may be of the same class as the original object or may be of a new class extended from the original class and still use the same stored object state. Access to the stored object state is made through a generic repository object that emulates the behavior of a particular class of object as defined in type definitions. Requests to a particular object's properties through interface methods are serviced by having the generic repository object make reference to the type definitions in order to fulfill the request. Binary extensibility of the generic repository object along with proper class definition in the type definitions allows custom objects having greater functionality than that provided by the generic repository object to be implemented. Furthermore, class definitions that use only functionality provided by the generic repository object may be defined so as to allow instantiation of objects without the implementation of actual software code whatsoever. Finally, in a currently preferred embodiment, object state is stored advantageously in SQL database tables organized on a per-interface basis with properties common to all objects stored in a main stored object state table.

Method, data structure, and computer program product for object state storage

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