ABILITY FOR DEVELOPERS TO EASILY FIND OR EXTEND WELL KNOWN LOCATIONS ON A SYSTEM

Patent №

US 7,478,085

Granted

2009-01-13

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11096871

A method and data structure for creating and accessing folders stored in well known locations. The data structure and method utilizes a set of APIs to create and manage well known folders on a system and/or to locate specific well known folders. The invention provides interfaces to create, locate, extend, and enumerate well known folders. In addition, the invention allows a developer and/or user to customize properties of well known folders.

Natural languageG06F 16/168Y10S 707/99931Y10S 707/99934

AI classification

Natural language0.89
Planning0.50
AI hardware0.44
Knowledge representation0.16
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 160490217

Assignors

RAWAT, ANSHUL, WENTZ, BRIAN D., GUZAK, CHRIS J., DE VORCHIK, DAVID G., BREZAK, JOHN E., ZHU, MING, SAMJI, MOHAMMED A., RAWAT, ANSHUL, WENTZ, BRIAN D., GUZAK, CHRIS J., DEVORCHIK, DAVID G., BREZAK, JOHN E., +2 more

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