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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:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2000
Applicants:
Doron J. Holan, Seattle, WA (US);
Kenneth D. Ray, Redmond, WA (US);
Louis J. Giliberto, Redmond, WA (US);
Husni Roukbi, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Doron J. Holan, Seattle, WA (US);
Kenneth D. Ray, Redmond, WA (US);
Louis J. Giliberto, Redmond, WA (US);
Husni Roukbi, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A service discovery stream is represented as an N-ary tree that provides the capability to change, add, or remove an element with only one modification to the entire tree. The number of elements in a stream are counted and each element and the element's children are converted into a node of the N-ary tree. Each node in the tree can have any number of siblings, which are linked to each other using a doubly linked list.