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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAndrey Shur, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Walker, David Ornstein, Jerry Dunietz, Joshua Pollock, Sarjana Sheth, Isaac Nichols
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A relationship data structure associated with a source resource enables methods to discover and describe relationships between the source resource and a plurality of target resources. The relationships are stored in a format independent of the encoding of the source resource. Each relationship between the source resource and the plurality of target resources is stored in a content-neutral format, and the relationship data structure stores, a location of each target resource, a type of relationship with each target resource and an identifier to uniquely identify each relationship between the source resource and each target resource. Accordingly, the relationship data structure allows a decoder to directly discover the relationships between the source resource and the plurality of target resources without decoding the source resource or target resources.
A method to describe one or more relationships between a source resource and one or more target resources, the one or more relationships encoded in a format independent of an encoding of the source resource, the method comprising:
A method to discover one or more relationships between a source resource and one or more target resources, the one or more relationships encoded in a format independent of an encoding of the source resource or the one or more target resources, the method comprising:
A relationship data structure, stored on a computer-readable medium, providing data corresponding to one or more relationships between a source resource and one or more target resources, the relationship data structure comprises:
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