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Schema-based services for identity-based data access to application settings data

  • US 7,284,197 B2
  • Filed: 06/28/2002
  • Issued: 10/16/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. At a remote service in a computer network in which a plurality of endpoints communicates with the remote service using an identity of an end user at the endpoint, a method of providing application settings to the plurality of different endpoints based at least in part on the identity of the end user, comprising:

  • providing at a remote service an identity-based application settings schema, the application settings schema having application settings-related fields arranged into a remote content document with defined structures for the fields;

    receiving from one endpoint a data access request for application settings information, the request including associated user identity information;

    identifying a plurality of schemas corresponding to the user identity, wherein at least one of the plurality of schemas is associated with an application settings service;

    creating a logical application settings document using the identified schema associated with the application settings service, wherein each set of data in the logical application settings document is structured to correspond to a field in the content document; and

    returning, in response to the data access request, the logical application settings document to the one endpoint.

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