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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2004
Applicants:

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

Thomas Roeder, Ithaca, NY (US);

James R. Larus, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Manuel Fahndrich, Seattle, WA (US);

John D. Detreville, Seattle, WA (US);

Steven P. Levi, Redmond, WA (US);

Benjamin Zorn, Woodinville, WA (US);

Wolfgang Grieskamp, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

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

Thomas Roeder, Ithaca, NY (US);

James R. Larus, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Manuel Fahndrich, Seattle, WA (US);

John D. DeTreville, Seattle, WA (US);

Steven P. Levi, Redmond, WA (US);

Benjamin Zorn, Woodinville, WA (US);

Wolfgang Grieskamp, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Described herein is at least one implementation employing multiple self-describing software artifacts persisted on one or more computer-storage media of a software-based computer. In this implementation, each artifact is representative of at least part of the software components (e.g., load modules, processes, applications, and operating system components) of the computing system and each artifact is described by at least one associated 'manifest,' which include metadata declarative descriptions of the associated artifact.


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