Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra – Application program interface
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-11
2005-01-11
An, Meng-Al T. (Department: 2126)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra
Application program interface
C717S143000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06842904
ABSTRACT:
Some large software development projects need more than one versioning system to accommodate not only a diversity of document formats and data types, but also the geographic diversity of its programmers. However, having more than one versioning systems is generally very expensive. A major factor in this expense is the requirement for a separate application program interface (API) for each separate versioning system. Accordingly, the inventors devised an exemplary API architecture which can be extended with “plug-in” protocol providers to include virtually any number of separate version stores or versioning systems. The exemplary architecture includes a generic command parser and a command dispatcher. The command dispatcher operatively couples to one or more protocol providers, each coupled to at least one version store. Inclusion of the OLE DB-compliant interface and the command parser in the exemplary embodiment saves the protocol providers the effort and expense of replicating these features, thereby reducing the cost of adding version stores.
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Anderson Zachary L.
Bartz Bradley J.
Kaler Christopher G.
Reeves Christopher D.
Santoro Michael R.
An Meng-Al T.
Hoang Phuong
Microsoft Corporation
Woodcock & Washburn LLP
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