Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tsvi Michael Reiter

Dean Charles McCrae

Torben Wind Meyhoff

Lars-Bo Christiansen

Uno Junghans

Michael James Ott

Donald J Hacherl

Edward A Martinez

Jasjit Singh Grewal

Min Fan

A business programming library for use by an enterprise resource planning system provides a run-time environment and a library of API services for accessing common data types and business methods, accessing table and form meta-data, and database administration and retrieval/modification. The library provides the ability to safely call into exposed services using multiple threads, and also provides indirect and executable permission checking for increasing system security.

Multi-threaded business programming library

A method of adding and analyzing metadata to discrete variables, such as time intervals and a system to implement to method is disclosed. The metadata can be aggregated and analyzed using analysis operations such as intersection, union, subtraction and inversion.

Blocks of time with metadata

The claims of the present application recite a method and system for accessing information in an otherwise inaccessible application database of a DBMS using view definitions that implement a security protocol.

Secured views for a CRM database

The directory service of the present invention extends the mechanism used to define ordinary properties to define 'links,' pairs of properties that represent an interobject reference with a certain meaning. Each pair is given a unique 'pair ID' and consists of a 'link' property and a 'backlink' property, which represent the 'reference' and 'is referenced by' semantics, respectively. Rather than storing interobject references with the referencing and/or the referenced objects themselves and imputing the link, instead the present invention stores the link instance itself as an unnamed object in a link database table, which is separate and distinct from the data information base, and imputes the values to be reported for the relevant properties on the referencing and referenced objects from the existence of records in the link table. When a directory service server learns of the deletion of an object (either via replication or because of a deletion occurring on that server), it removes from its link table all records that refer to that object in either the link ID or backlink ID column, which is an efficient operation. This eliminates any dangling references to the deleted object. Although this implicitly affects the values of the corresponding link and backlink properties on other objects in the directory (i.e., those named in the backlink or link properties of the object being deleted), the changes to those other objects do not need to be noted or replicated in any way, since the replication of the deletion of the original object will cause all other directory service servers to perform the same cleanup, thereby independently removing the same link instances. This allows the directory service to maintain referential integrity in a distributed manner, with minimal replication overhead.

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Tsvi Michael Reiter