Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thulusalamatom Krishnamurthi Anand

Alexander Sasha Stojanovic

Mohsen M Al-Ghosein

Shankar Pal

Gunnar Mein

Paul M Oeuvray

Govinda Dhondu

Cristian Petculescu

Marius Dumitru

Alexander Berger

C James MacLennan

Paul Jonathon Sanders

Ioan Bogdan Crivat

Richard R Tkachuk

Akshai Mirchandani

John Grant Bennett

Raja Krishnaswamy

Mosha Pasumansky

Raman S Iyer

Thomas P Conlon

Kamaljit S Bath

Adrian Dumitrascu

Rong Jian Guan

Andriy Garbuzov

Edward Melomed

Chu Xu

Valeri Kim

Sergei Gringauze

Peter A Tucker

Systems and methods that supply extensibility mechanisms for analysis services, via a plug-in component that enables additional functionalities. The plug-in component provide additional custom logic for the analysis services unified dimensional model (UDM). Accordingly, server functionalities can be extended in an agile manner, and without a requirement for a new release, for example.

Extensibility mechanism for analysis services unified dimensional model

The subject invention relates to systems and methods that extend the network data access capabilities of mark-up language protocols. In one aspect, a network data transfer system is provided. The system includes a protocol component that employs a computerized mark-up language to facilitate data interactions between network components, whereby the data interactions were previously limited or based on a statement command associated with the markup language. An extension component operates with the protocol component to support the data transactions, where the extension component supplies at least one other command from the statement command to facilitate the data interactions.

Systems and methods of utilizing and expanding standard protocol

The ability to link dimensions and measure groups in one analysis database to a second database is provided. This feature enables the use of the dimension or measure group without physically creating and managing the contents of the cube so defined.

Linked dimension and measure groups

An application layer protocol is provided on top of HTTP 1.0/1.1 to allow for COM Automation objects to be invoked over the Internet through IIS/ISAPI servers. The format essentially encodes the automation object's name, method to invoke, and any [in], [out], [in, out] parameters that the method signature requires, packages them up into a custom MIME type and marshals it to the ISAPI dynamic link library (DLL) on the IIS/HTTP server. There, the ISAPI DLL contains the logic to unpack the SOAP request, parses it, creates the Automation object, invokes the method with the marshaled parameters, and then returns any [out] parameters to the caller/client using the SOAP protocol. It is a stateless protocol, meaning that object lifetimes only extend to one method, and are recreated between multiple calls to the object.

Simple object access protocol

An application layer protocol is provided on top of HTTP 1.0/1.1 to allow for COM Automation objects to be invoked over the Internet through IIS/ISAPI servers. The format essentially encodes the automation object's name, method to invoke, and any &lsqb;in&rsqb;, &lsqb;out&rsqb;, &lsqb;in, out&rsqb; parameters that the method signature requires, packages them up into a custom MIME type and marshals it to the ISAPI dynamic link library (DLL) on the IIS/HTTP server. There, the ISAPI DLL contains the logic to unpack the SOAP request, parses it, creates the Automation object, invokes the method with the marshaled parameters, and then returns any &lsqb;out&rsqb; parameters to the caller/client using the SOAP protocol. It is a stateless protocol, meaning that object lifetimes only extend to one method, and are recreated between multiple calls to the object.

A method and tabular data stream format is provided for the transmission of tabular data between a client process running on a client computer and a server process running on a server computer via a network such as the Internet. The tabular data stream format, called the Advanced Data TableGram (ADTG) format, is ideally suited for marshaling tabular data in both directions between a Web browser and a Web server. A Web browser query is processed by the Web server retrieving tabular data from a database and converting the data into a Rowset. The Rowset, in turn, is formatted into an ADTG message. The ADTG message includes a Header section, a HandlerOptions section, a Row section, and an End section. The Header section includes data representing global parameters for a tabular data stream. The Handler Options section contains data representing parameters for controlling the processing of the tabular data stream by a process receiving the tabular data stream. The Descriptors section includes data representing properties of the tabular data stream. The Row section includes data representing the properties of rows and values of the columns of the tabular data stream. The End section contains data that denotes the end of parts of an ADTG message, called resultsets, or the end of the entire ADTG message.

Method of creating a tabular data stream for sending rows of data

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Thulusalamatom Krishnamurthi Anand