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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2005
James Kirk Haselden, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sergei Ivanov, Issaquah, WA (US);
James Kirk Haselden, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sergei Ivanov, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject invention pertains to a systems and methods of restarting programs upon failure. In particular, the systems and methods provide for generation of a checkpoint component including program execution status or completion data as well as state. This checkpoint component can then be employed by an execution engine to restart the program at a point in time captured by the checkpoint component. According to one specific aspect of the invention, these systems and methods can be applied to a workflow system to facilitate restarting a workflow package or process described thereby.