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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2005
Ajay Bhave, Redmond, WA (US);
Ning Zhang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ajay Bhave, Redmond, WA (US);
Ning Zhang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Applications or operating system components requiring a SKU, or other indicator of an operating system, make a call to an API. The calling application passes an indicator of the most current version of an operating system known at the time of the application creation as an argument. This argument may be an indictor of the operating system version, build number, and service pack version, for example. The called API may reference a table of operating system SKUs with the indicator of the most current operating system known to the calling application. If found, the API returns the corresponding SKU to the calling application. If not found, the API returns the SKU corresponding to the closest sequential match to the passed in indicator. The calling application may then execute believing it is using the operating system corresponding to the returned SKU.