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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2011
Bryan Dove, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan A. Handler, Northbrook, IL (US);
Michael J. Bortnick, Oswego, IL (US);
Dongbai Guo, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bryan Dove, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan A. Handler, Northbrook, IL (US);
Michael J. Bortnick, Oswego, IL (US);
Dongbai Guo, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The described implementations relate to expressing terminologies in a hierarchical form. One implementation can receive a terminology that can include concept-code pairs. For example, each of the concept-code pairs can include a concept and a code that is assigned to the concept by the terminology. The implementation can map the concepts to levels of a hierarchical ontology, and associate some of the concepts across different levels of the hierarchical ontology. The implementation can also provide programmatic access to the concept-code pairs of the terminology via the hierarchical ontology.