US Patent:
20100293554, Nov 18, 2010
Inventors:
Aditya Rastogi - Kirkland WA, US
Alaks Sevugan - Issaquah WA, US
Ciprian Gociman - Woodinville WA, US
Jennifer M. Lin - Seattle WA, US
Jinbo Zhou - Redmond WA, US
Sameer V. Bhangar - Seattle WA, US
David Tyler Hunt - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 13/00
G06F 9/44
G06F 9/445
Abstract:
Information describing a type registration regarding which an action is being requested by the client application is received as one or more parameters of an application programming interface method invoked by the client application. Based on the one or more parameters, one of multiple type extensions to which the action being requested corresponds is determined. At least part of the information describing the type registration is sent to the one of the multiple type extensions, and the one of the multiple type extensions performs the action being requested.