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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2002
Todd R. Manion, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeremy L. Dewey, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert D. Donner, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott A. Senkeresty, Duvall, WA (US);
Rohit Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Upshur Warren Parks, Iii, Bothell, WA (US);
Noel W. Anderson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Todd R. Manion, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeremy L. Dewey, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert D. Donner, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott A. Senkeresty, Duvall, WA (US);
Rohit Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Upshur Warren Parks, III, Bothell, WA (US);
Noel W. Anderson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Application programming interfaces and methods that provide graph management in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are provided. More specifically, new and improved P2P application programming interfaces (APIs) and methods for the creation and access of graphs, the retrieval of node and graph information, the addition, modification, deletion and management of records (data), the importation and exportation of graph data, the direct communication between graph nodes, the addition of a security provider to a graph, the setting and retrieval of presence information, the registering for event notifications, and other utility and support functions are presented. Each of these interfaces utilize various parameters that are passed in from an application program that uses these interfaces to manage and utilize graphs. The interfaces return a value that indicates the success or failure of the function. For failures, the interfaces provide an indication as to the problem resulting in the failure.