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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2008
Kenneth H. Abbott, Kirkland, WA (US);
Joshua M. Freedman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Dan Newell, Medina, WA (US);
James O. Robarts, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth H. Abbott, Kirkland, WA (US);
Joshua M. Freedman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Dan Newell, Medina, WA (US);
James O. Robarts, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for providing information about a context that is modeled with multiple context attributes. In some situations, at least some of the context attributes have values used by modules for generating values of other context attributes, and the providing includes determining that a first module is generating a first value of a first of the context attributes of the modeled context and determining that a circular reference exists when it is determined that a module is to generate another value of the first context attribute such that the generating of the another value is caused by the generating of the first value of the first context attribute.