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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Applicants:
Steven G. Judd, Redmond, WA (US);
Andy Harjanto, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Steven G. Judd, Redmond, WA (US);
Andy Harjanto, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method of network administration uniformly exposes the administrative interfaces of network services to facilitate network administration. Each service has published, in a network directory service, an object comprising information relevant to the service. An administrative tool is able to harvest information from the object and use it to automatically invoke a service-specific tool. The service-specific tool is able to locate and communicate with the service by using information passed to the service-specific tool from the administrative tool.