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US 6,606,634 B2Granted
Obtaining table objects using table dispensers
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorRobert M. Craig
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InventorRobert M. Craig
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A table dispenser provides one or more table objects for accessing one or more datastores containing configuration information in a computer system, responsive to a request for a table from a caller. The table objects combine to present a location-independent and format-independent table of configuration information to the caller. To access one or more datastores, a caller creates a table system by passing input parameters to a table dispenser. The table dispenser references a wiring database to determine an appropriate combination of table object dispensers needed to create necessary table objects and return the desired table to the caller. The table dispenser and table object dispensers may operate recursively to provide multiple configurations of table systems. The wiring database supports database-wide and file-wide wiring relationships to provide general wiring instructions to the table dispenser.
A computer program storage medium readable by a computing system and encoding a computer program for executing a computer process identifying a first table object dispenser of a plurality of table object dispensers, each table object dispenser being capable of creating a table object to present a table of configuration information stored in one or more datastores, the computer process comprising:
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a wiring table data structure comprising:
A system for identifying a first table object dispenser for presenting at least a portion of a requested table of configuration information stored in one or more datastores, wherein the requested table is identified by an identity parameter, the system comprising:
A method of identifying a first table object dispenser of a plurality of table object dispensers, each table object dispenser being capable of creating a table object to present a table of configuration information stored in one or more datastores, the method comprising:
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