Systems and methods to facilitate utilization of database modeling

• US 20060010157A1
• Filed: 03/01/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lvovitch, Oleg, Carroll, Matthew E., Sanders, Paul J., Petculescu, Cristian, Conlon, Thomas P., Netz, Amir, Dumitrascu, Adrian
• Granted Patent: US 7,885,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/31 Programming languages or programming paradigms

Abstract

The subject invention relates to systems and methods that extend the network data access capabilities of mark-up language protocols. In one aspect, a network data modeling system is provided. The system includes a protocol component that employs a computerized mark-up language to facilitate data interactions between network components. An extension component operates with the protocol component to support the data transactions, where the extension component supplies various commands above standard network and database protocols. An object model is provided as a wrapper to the extensions in order to support various online and offline database development applications.

Claims

1. A network data modeling system, comprising:

a protocol component that employs computerized mark-up language extensions to facilitate data interactions between network components; and

an object model that wraps the extensions inside a subsequent data language in order to support online and offline database languages.

2. The system of claim 1, the object model supports command options as override arguments to method calls or as properties on one or more objects.

3. The system of claim 1, the object model deploys a stored procedure by loading a file.

4. The system of claim 1, the object model enables recording of at least one software buffer trace event.

5. The system of claim 1, the object model supports a capture mode to examine code generated by the object model.

6. The system of claim 1, the object model provides a scripting capability that generates scripts that define server objects.

7. The system of claim 6, the object model includes at least one option to apply different database operations to an object scripting operation.

8. The system of claim 1, the object model enables a system impact analysis.

9. The system of claim 1, the object model determines a server load on one or more object demands.

10. The system of claim 1, the object model is associated with a validate method that is called on objects without server interaction.

11. The system of claim 1, the object model includes an object dependency calculator.

12. The system of claim 1, the object model includes a bindings helper to determine data source bindings.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising an offline development tool to at least one of create, define, and save new objects.

14. The system of claim 13, the offline development tool further comprising at least one configuration file to enable concurrent object development.

15. The system of claim 13, further comprising a deployment utility to deploy offline applications to a server.

16. The system of claim 1, the subsequent language is a procedural language.

17. A computer readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon for implementing the components of claim 1.

18. A method for interacting with a database, comprising:

employing a base analysis protocol to communicate between database components;

adding one or more extensions to the base analysis protocol; and

wrapping the extensions in a procedural language to isolate database applications from implementation details within the database components.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising providing an offline development tool to enable object development in an application that is remote from an online database.

20. A system to facilitate database interactions, comprising:

means for extending a base analysis protocol to communicate between one or more network components;

means for defining at least one parameter extension for the base analysis protocol; and

means for wrapping the parameter extension in an object model protocol to facilitate online and offline database application development.