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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2005
Raj Merchant, Kirkland, WA (US);
Brandon V. Taylor, Issaquah, WA (US);
Shiraz J. Cupala, Seattle, WA (US);
Dragos Barac, Bellevue, WA (US);
Raj Merchant, Kirkland, WA (US);
Brandon V. Taylor, Issaquah, WA (US);
Shiraz J. Cupala, Seattle, WA (US);
Dragos Barac, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for creating document schema. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving schema corresponding to meta-data associated with a document, storing the schema in the document, and storing the meta-data in the document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include storing the schema at a first location. The schema stored at the first location may be changeable independent of the schema stored in the document. In addition, the disclosed systems and methods may include creating a first hash of the schema stored in the document and storing the first hash in the document. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining that the schema stored at the first location has changed if a second hash of the schema stored at the first location is different from the first hash of the schema stored in the document.