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Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2008
Applicants:

Nicholas Alexander Allen, Redmond, WA (US);

Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, Redmond, WA (US);

Stephen J. Millet, Edmonds, WA (US);

Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Duvall, WA (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas Alexander Allen, Redmond, WA (US);

Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, Redmond, WA (US);

Stephen J. Millet, Edmonds, WA (US);

Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Duvall, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Technologies for conversations between various parties, the conversations including context information that can be persisted to maintain the conversation when the parties or the communications media they communicate over operate intermittently. In such a conversation, any party can embed its view of the context into a message and any party can send the next message regardless of role and regardless of the underlying network, transport, or application message exchange pattern. Such technologies provide for durable services.


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