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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Arijit Basu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tao Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yi Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sheng Peng, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sridhar Srinivasan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An instance of an existing data system has one or more processes. Each process has corresponding metadata. In one example method, metadata for a given process is accessed and a visual diagram of the process is automatically generated based on the diagram. The visual diagram is displayed on a user interface display and a user modification input is received on the user interface display modifying the visual diagram to obtain a modified visual diagram. The metadata corresponding to the process is modified based on the modification to the visual diagram.