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Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2006
Applicants:

Subramanian Muralidhar, Bellevue, WA (US);

Stephen Frederick Starck, Bothell, WA (US);

Sean B. House, Seattle, WA (US);

Simon Cavanagh, Redmond, WA (US);

Fabio Meireles F. Valbuena, Bellevue, WA (US);

Ramesh Nagarajan, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Subramanian Muralidhar, Bellevue, WA (US);

Stephen Frederick Starck, Bothell, WA (US);

Sean B. House, Seattle, WA (US);

Simon Cavanagh, Redmond, WA (US);

Fabio Meireles F. Valbuena, Bellevue, WA (US);

Ramesh Nagarajan, Seattle, 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

A query language has support for rich data types. A query language system contains an application configured to generate queries according to the query language. In addition, the system has a platform for handling queries that are generated using the provided query language. The platform contains an object services layer, a map provider layer, and a bridge layer which may ultimately interface with a variety of commercially available databases.


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