Data store for software application documents
CA 2533568 C · Owner: Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc · Inventors: Jones, Brian M.; Sawicki, Marcin; Taleghani, Ali
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A data store is provided for storing, relating and for allowing use of data associated with a computer-generated document. Data for structuring information associated with a document such as document metadata, is maintained in the data store where relationships between different pieces of data are maintained in a location distinct from the surface level view of a document. The data store exposes interfaces to the various pieces of data in the data store for allowing different applications to access and operate on one or more of the data pieces. The pieces of data may be structured according to a markup language such as the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and XML schemas may be associated …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed January 20, 2006 and granted July 16, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 20, 2026.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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