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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2004
Geoffrey John Elliott, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian J. Guarraci, Redmond, WA (US);
Aarthi Natarajan, Bellevue, WA (US);
John D. Vert, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward H. Wayt, Seattle, WA (US);
Geoffrey John Elliott, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian J. Guarraci, Redmond, WA (US);
Aarthi Natarajan, Bellevue, WA (US);
John D. Vert, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward H. Wayt, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Ordered list management is described. An item's position within an ordered list is represented by a path value. A globally unique identifier (GUID) is appended to the path value to enable simultaneous or near-simultaneous modifications to the ordered list without conflict. Furthermore, an ordered list-specific seed value may be prepended to each item's path value to ensure clustering of ordered list items when two or more ordered lists are merged.