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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:
Jan. 19, 2010

Filed:

Jan. 05, 2005
Applicants:

Erh-chun Yeh, Bellevue, WA (US);

Youxuan Jin, Bellevue, WA (US);

Zhenyu Tang, Sammamish, WA (US);

Jin Teik Teh, Redmond, WA (US);

Manoj Nuthakki, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Erh-Chun Yeh, Bellevue, WA (US);

Youxuan Jin, Bellevue, WA (US);

Zhenyu Tang, Sammamish, WA (US);

Jin Teik Teh, Redmond, WA (US);

Manoj Nuthakki, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

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

The subject invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates prescribing a navigation within an application utilizing a topology and a navigation path. The topology is created based upon received metadata and is a network of node objects and link objects. The navigation path is a sequential list over the topology that represents a sub-graph thereof. A prescribing component can create the topology and navigation path such that a prescribed navigation can be utilized by an application during navigation (e.g., exploration) during runtime.


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