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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009

Filed:

May. 13, 2005
Applicants:

Jason T. Hunter, Redmond, WA (US);

Sergey Melnik, Kirkland, WA (US);

Ramachandran Venkatesh, Bellevue, WA (US);

David J. Nettleton, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jason T. Hunter, Redmond, WA (US);

Sergey Melnik, Kirkland, WA (US);

Ramachandran Venkatesh, Bellevue, WA (US);

David J. Nettleton, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methodologies that facilitate evolving a data model via a combination of an explicit logical model definition, logical model changes, functional units, an explicit/implicit physical model and physical model changes, to derive a data model transformation are presented. Such an arrangement can provide for a rich set of transformations, which can be automatically applied to a data model instantiation. The subject invention facilitates leveraging a common set of code in data model instantiation evolution, by defining the set of transformations across an arbitrary data model.


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