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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mircea Trofin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Sammamish, WA (US);
Patrick H. Dussud, Redmond, WA (US);
John Duffy, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
API (application program interface) features defined by a set of APIs provide a different cross-sectional view of an application or framework than the view provided by sectioning along class or library boundaries, or binding units, for example. An API feature includes a proper subset of a library of a framework used by an application, and/or APIs which collectively reside in different libraries. A functionality feature API set provides an exposed surface area of a functionality feature of an application. Upon receiving a compilation request and determining that an API feature is to be excluded, an attempt is made to produce a compiled version of the application without the feature's APIs. In some cases, the functionality feature is independent of a baseline functionality of the application. Developers can obtain smaller but fully functional binaries. Framework architects can identify dependencies between API implementations when creating or modifying a software framework's architecture.