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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2004
Lakshmi Narayanan Thanu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Peter Eberhardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Vijay Govind Baliga, Redmond, WA (US);
Lakshmi Narayanan Thanu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Peter Eberhardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Vijay Govind Baliga, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Indirect persistent storage of data in a file that is associated with an application program and is capable of having an embedded OLEObject includes creating the OLEObject by way of a Component Object Model add-in that supplements the application program, and using the OLEObject to store the data in the file. The OLEObject is marked so that it is hidden from a user of the application program. After loading a file that was previously saved and closed, the OLEObject is initialized, and the stored data is retrieved. The add-in may be a reporting add-in that queries a database, such as an OLAP database.