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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 22, 2013
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

David L. Meyers, Bellevue, WA (US);

Michael B. Palmer, Redmond, WA (US);

Betsy Y. McIntyre, Redmond, WA (US);

Mirela D. S. Correa, Redmond, WA (US);

David P. Limont, Seattle, WA (US);

Kenneth Fern, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30424 (2013.01); H04L 67/1091 (2013.01); H04L 67/2823 (2013.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01);
Abstract

A document sharing system includes a plurality of different data provider implementations. The document sharing system exposes a common application programming interface to a plurality of different clients and receives data requests identifying a given data provider, from the clients. The document sharing system then uses the data provider implementation for the data provider identified in the request, in order to obtain the requested data, and place it in a common data structure that is returned to the client.


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