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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Brent E. Rector, Redmond, WA (US);
Elliot H. Omiya, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jerry J. Dunietz, Seattle, WA (US);
Martyn S. Lovell, Seattle, WA (US);
Ales Holecek, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mahesh Prakriya, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen C. Rowe, Bellevue, WA (US);
James F. Springfield, Woodinville, WA (US);
Noel R. Cross, Seattle, WA (US);
Tassaduq H. Basu, Redmond, WA (US);
Patrick H. Dussud, Redmond, WA (US);
Raja Krishnaswamy, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven Edward Lucco, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments provide an ability to describe, independent of a programming language, one or more interfaces associated with an operating system. Alternately or additionally, a compiler associated with a specific programming language can be configured to map the independent interface description(s) to the specific programming language. In some embodiments, an application can be configured to programmatically determine one or more interfaces of the operating system.