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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2008
William B. Lees, Kirkland, WA (US);
Rajagopalan B. Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Parham, Redmond, WA (US);
William B. Lees, Kirkland, WA (US);
Rajagopalan B. Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Parham, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a technology in a distributed configuration network management environment, in which action-style documents are used as guides in processing structured documents to perform management tasks. For example, the action-style documents may be used by a standard stylesheet processor to validate a constitutional document, and process input lines of that constitutional document into output lines of a document. When executed, the output lines perform a management task. In this manner, for example, policy statements of an administrator are transformed into a single type of self-contained document that is consistently interpreted, and thus consistently executed, regardless of its source or when it was authored.