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Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2004
Applicants:

Mathilde C. Brown, Seattle, WA (US);

Charlie D. Chase, Woodinville, WA (US);

Kevin Grealish, Seattle, WA (US);

Galen C. Hunt, Bellevue, WA (US);

Aamer Hydrie, Seattle, WA (US);

David Noble, Redmond, WA (US);

Geoffrey Outhred, Seattle, WA (US);

Glenn R. Peterson, Kenmore, WA (US);

Bassam Tabbara, Seattle, WA (US);

Alexander Torone, Sammamsih, WA (US);

Robert V. Welland, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Mathilde C. Brown, Seattle, WA (US);

Charlie D. Chase, Woodinville, WA (US);

Kevin Grealish, Seattle, WA (US);

Galen C. Hunt, Bellevue, WA (US);

Aamer Hydrie, Seattle, WA (US);

David Noble, Redmond, WA (US);

Geoffrey Outhred, Seattle, WA (US);

Glenn R. Peterson, Kenmore, WA (US);

Bassam Tabbara, Seattle, WA (US);

Alexander Torone, Sammamsih, WA (US);

Robert V. Welland, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A design tool includes a service definition model to enable abstract description of distributed computing systems and distributed applications. The design tool also includes a schema to dictate how functional operations within the service definition model are to be specified. The functional operations include design of distributed applications, deployment of distributed applications, and management of distributed applications.


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