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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2005
Applicants:

Michael J. Ott, Redmond, WA (US);

Tsvi M. Reiter, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Michael J. Ott, Redmond, WA (US);

Tsvi M. Reiter, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of adding and analyzing metadata to discrete variables, such as time intervals and a system to implement to method is disclosed. The metadata can be aggregated and analyzed using analysis operations such as intersection, union, subtraction and inversion.


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