Configurable view on data models

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(12) Umted States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,140,581 B2 Flynn et al. (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 20, 2012 (54) CONFIGURABLE VIEW ON DATA MODELS 2? 2 g/Iatfilbouleh a a e es (75) Inventors: James Randall Flynn, Seattle, WA 2 igiltak (US); Slddharth Jayadevan, Seattle, 5,825,355 A 10/1998 Palmer et al. WA (U S); Laurent Mollicone, Kirkland, 5,940,615 A 8/ 1999 Novick WA (US); Anthony Scott Williams, 2 Ejjse eta1~ Mercer Island, WA (US); Michael 6’055’327 A 4/2000 Almgon ; , , u' Charles Murray, Seattle, WA (U S) 6 098 072 A 8/2000 S1 1man Florian W. H. Voss, Seattle, WA (US); 6,110,223 A 8/2000 Southgate et al. Stephen Michael Danton, Seattle, WA 2 1€°}1IdTL1IiI1let a1~ 1 (US); Scott M. Roberts, Bothell, WA ’ ’ _ ne an et a ' (US) (Cont1nued) (73) Assignee: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (US) WO WO2006096792 9/2006 ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OTHER PUBLICATIONS patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Oculus Info, Inc., “Using Oculus.NET F0rY0ur Business DataVisuU,S,C, l54(b) by 683 days, alization Solutions: A Technical Overview”, 2007, pp. 1-17.* (21) Appl. No.: 12/121,755 (Continued) . _ Primary Examiner * Rehana Perveen (22) F11ed' May 15’ 2008 Assistant Examiner * Scott A Waldron (65) prior publication Data (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Workman Nydegger US 2009/0284549 A1 Nov. 19, 2009 (57) ABSTRACT 51 I t_ CL Data-driven configuration of various views on data models. A ( ) Gn06F 17/30 (200601) framework may be provided that offers one or more param(52) U.S. Cl. ...................................... .. 707/793; 345/619 etfmzed “SW lgeneration Components’ each aiéned a.‘ ge(‘11er' (58) Field of Classification Search ................ .. 707/804, anng a Pam“ at Vlew type In response to. Con guranon am 707/805 793 796 that populates the parameters of the associated component. A S 1. t. fil f 1 t h h. t’ ’ user or other computing entity merely provides configuration ee app lea Ion e or Comp e e Searc ls OW’ data to an appropriate view generation component to generate (56) References Cited a custom view. That custom view may then optionally per

haps be applied to any number of data models, or perhaps not applied to any data model at all and just saved for perhaps some future use. This view generation may generate composite views on a data model, or even hierarchical views on a data model.

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