SHARED DATA COLLECTIONS - MICROSOFT CORP

Title:

SHARED DATA COLLECTIONS

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/163001

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

A data sharing mechanism may allow programs to share access to data collections. The mechanisms that implement the sharing may allow programs written in any language to read and write a shared collection. The mechanisms may make the shared nature of the collection relatively transparent to the program and to the programmer, by allowing program to operate on the data more or less as if it were purely local data. The sharing of collections may be managed by a shared object runtime on each machine on which a collection is used, and by a shared object server. The shared object server maintains the true state of the collection, and deterministically resolves collections when programs operate on the same collection without knowledge of each other's operations. The mechanisms by which collections are shared may be implemented so as to be agnostic as to the kind of data in the collection.

Inventors:

AUGUSTINE MATTHEW S (US)
BURKHARDT JOHN (US)
LAMBERT BRIAN M (US)
OZZIE RAYMOND E (US)
SCHLEIFER JASON E (US)
SPEYER RICHARD Z (US)
SUTHAR PARESH S (US)

Application Number:

PCT/US2011/040235

Publication Date:

February 23, 2012

Filing Date:

June 13, 2011

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Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORP (US)

International Classes:

G06F17/40; G06F9/44

Foreign References:

US20050076098A1	2005-04-07
US20070174764A1	2007-07-26
US20040003352A1	2004-01-01
US20080059519A1	2008-03-06

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