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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:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2003
Applicant:
Steven V. Harter, Fargo, ND (US);
Inventor:
Steven V. Harter, Fargo, ND (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
Property and object validation is provided in a framework for authoring database systems. The framework treats a property as an object and provides a mechanism to allow constraints to be enforced on the values entered in the properties. Some objects of an application have properties that have dependencies on other properties for setting. The framework of the present invention also allows easy enforcement of such dependency constraints.