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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2006
Applicants:

Arthur C. Leonard, Redmond, WA (US);

Andrey Shur, Redmond, WA (US);

Kevin J. Boske, Seattle, WA (US);

Igor Belianski, Issaquah, WA (US);

Jerry J. Dunietz, Seattle, WA (US);

Oliver H. Foehr, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Young Gah Kim, Bothell, WA (US);

Jesse D. Mcgatha, Sammamish, WA (US);

Joshua M. Pollock, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Arthur C. Leonard, Redmond, WA (US);

Andrey Shur, Redmond, WA (US);

Kevin J. Boske, Seattle, WA (US);

Igor Belianski, Issaquah, WA (US);

Jerry J. Dunietz, Seattle, WA (US);

Oliver H. Foehr, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Young Gah Kim, Bothell, WA (US);

Jesse D. McGatha, Sammamish, WA (US);

Joshua M. Pollock, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2247 (2013.01); G06F 17/2705 (2013.01);
Abstract

This document describes tools capable of validating and enabling validation of a package's structure. To do so, constraint grammar is provided that is capable of enabling a person to build a set of machine-readable constraints for a package's structure. Based on this set of constraints, a package validator module may accurately and automatically validate that a package's structure meets these constraints.


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