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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Andrey Shur, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce A. Mackenzie, Sammamish, WA (US);
Charles S. Walker, Sammamish, WA (US);
David B. Ornstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Jerry J. Dunietz, Seattle, WA (US);
Joshua M. Pollock, Seattle, WA (US);
Sarjana B. Sheth, Redmond, WA (US);
Isaac E. Nichols, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrey Shur, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce A. MacKenzie, Sammamish, WA (US);
Charles S. Walker, Sammamish, WA (US);
David B. Ornstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Jerry J. Dunietz, Seattle, WA (US);
Joshua M. Pollock, Seattle, WA (US);
Sarjana B. Sheth, Redmond, WA (US);
Isaac E. Nichols, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A relationship data structure associated with a source resource enables methods to discover and describe relationships between the source resource and a plurality of target resources. The relationships are stored in a format independent of the encoding of the source resource. Each relationship between the source resource and the plurality of target resources is stored in a content-neutral format, and the relationship data structure stores, a location of each target resource, a type of relationship with each target resource and an identifier to uniquely identify each relationship between the source resource and each target resource. Accordingly, the relationship data structure allows a decoder to directly discover the relationships between the source resource and the plurality of target resources without decoding the source resource or target resources.