Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Vivek Gundotra

Mark H Lucovsky

Amit Mital

Joseph D Belfiore

Eric D Rudder

David G Campbell

Tandy Woodson Trower, Ii

Keith W Short

Steven M Cellini

Steve Capps

Kaviraj Singh

Peter M Spiro

David Vaskevitch

Charles T Fitzgerald

Paul A Maritz

Paul J Leach

Daniel Ron Simon

Richard Bruce Ward

Shaun Douglas Pierce

George M Moore

Alexander Thomas Weinert

Jonathan D Pincus

Arthur Zwiegincew

Tandy W Trower, Ii

Robert M Hyman

Michael Burner

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

A messaging data structure for accessing data in an identity-centric manner. An identity may be a user, a group of users, or an organization. Instead of data being maintained on an application-by-application basis, the data associated with a particular identity is stored by one or more data services accessible by many applications. The data is stored in accordance with a schema that is recognized by a number of different applications and the data service. The messaging data structure includes fields that identify the target data object to be operated upon using an identity field, a schema field, and an instance identifier field. In addition, the desired operation is specified. Thus, the target data object is operated on in an identity-centric manner.

Messaging infrastructure for identity-centric data access

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