Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Suresh Kannan

Ramu Movva

Paul J Leach

Mark H Lucovsky

Richard Bruce Ward

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Burra Gopal

Peter Sewall Ford

Lijiang Fang

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Samuel John George

Paul Andrew Steckler

Steven D White

Jagadeesh Kalki

Winnie C Wu

William Raymond Hoffman

Michael B Taylor

Walter C Hsueh

Kendall D Keil

David Benjamin Auerbach

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yi-Wen Guu

Philip Michael Smoot

Paul A Elliott

Patrick Moulhaud

Stephen P Rosato

Jason A Antonelli

Duoc Nguyen

Pak H Ko

Methods and systems for managing notifications. A web service embodying aspects of the invention is responsive to requests structured according to an extensible messaging framework and extracts request information, including at least a content provider identifier and a topic identifier, from the request to execute a selected notification management function.

Topic-based notification service

A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.

Schema-based services for identity-based data access

Systems, methods, apparatus, data structures, and computer-readable media are described which provide techniques for managing data storage. In an implementation, a method includes examining a role map to determine which of a plurality of roles are applicable to a request to interact with at least one of a plurality of items. The request is received via an application programming interface (API) that is available over a network and one or more of the items reference a respective item of data. Access to the at least one item is permitted based on a role definition which describes differing access rights available for the item based on which of the roles is applicable to the request.

Storage application programming interface

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