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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2007
Igor Sedukhin, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dan Eshner, Issaquah, WA (US);
Stephen T. Swartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Oliver Sharp, Sammamish, WA (US);
Uday Kumar Bhaskara, Redmond, WA (US);
Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amol Sudhakar Kulkarni, Bothell, WA (US);
Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Pogrebinsky, Sammamish, WA (US);
Haoran Andy Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Igor Sedukhin, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dan Eshner, Issaquah, WA (US);
Stephen T. Swartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Oliver Sharp, Sammamish, WA (US);
Uday Kumar Bhaskara, Redmond, WA (US);
Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amol Sudhakar Kulkarni, Bothell, WA (US);
Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Pogrebinsky, Sammamish, WA (US);
Haoran Andy Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Abstracting communication with a plurality of containers. Each container encapsulates or hosts a module (e.g., a web service, a database, etc.) associated with a distributed application. A meta-container communicates with drivers that interface with each of the containers. The meta-container represents an abstraction and a virtualization of the containers in the hierarchy. Each container may also be a meta-container for other containers. The recursion and layered hierarchy provide flexible, extensible, and efficient management of the distributed application.