Qin Zhou, 35Kirkland, WA

8244872, Aug 14, 2012

Jun 11, 2009

12/482985

Ellery Charlson - Bothell WA, US
Lei Wang - Redmond WA, US
Mohamed Rouatbi - Bellevue WA, US
Parul R. Manek - Redmond WA, US
Rajeev Mittal - Redmond WA, US
Xin Li - Redmond WA, US
Zhipeng Zhao - Bellevue WA, US
Zubin Alexander - Bothell WA, US
Kevin Casey Gammill - Beaux Arts WA, US
Qin Zhou - Kirkland WA, US
Manjusha M. Mangaonkar - Bellevue WA, US
Brian James Hardy - Duvall WA, US

Microsoft Corp. - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709226, 705 1, 705326, 709200

The educational adaptive provider architecture described herein provides a way for an educational services framework to be built on varying underlying existing technologies without any changes in the object model and services. The provider framework supports the ability to have multiple types of providers for various services, such as, for example, for authorization, authentication, communication, grouping, scoring, social-networking, storage and user functions. The educational adaptive provider architecture provides easy integration of existing institutional and educational service deployments.

8620956, Dec 31, 2013

Jun 16, 2009

12/485063

Lei Wang - Redmond WA, US
Mohamed Rouatbi - Bellevue WA, US
Rajeev Kumar Mittal - Redmond WA, US
Parul Ranjit Manek - Redmond WA, US
Zubin Alexander - Bothell WA, US
Kevin C. Gammill - Beaux Arts WA, US
Ellery Charlson - Bothell WA, US
Xin Li - Redmond WA, US
Zhipeng Zhao - Bellevue WA, US
Qin Zhou - Kirkland WA, US
Yuan-Fen Kuo - Redmond WA, US
Manjusha Madhav Mangaonkar - Bellevue WA, US
Tony Kao - Lynnwood WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707791, 707802, 707954, 707955, 707959, 705327

Described is a technology in which a set of objects represent educational entities of an educational model, with relationships between objects. For example, a course object instance may have a relationship with a task instance and a user instance (such as representing a student). Other objects may include user credentials objects, group objects, degree program objects, course plan objects, institution objects, school objects, and/or department objects. The set of objects may be pre-defined and maintained in a persistent storage; this pre-defined set may be extended with an extended object that has relationships with pre-defined objects. The educational entities of an object model may be maintained in rows of a table, with each row having a field that identifies which entity is represented by that row. The table is accessed to determine relationships between an instantiated object for an entity and at least one other instantiated object for another entity.

2010031, Dec 16, 2010

Jun 16, 2009

12/485067

Ellery Charlson - Bothell WA, US
Lei Wang - Redmond WA, US
Mohamed Rouatbi - Bellevue WA, US
Parul Ranjit Manek - Redmond WA, US
Rajeev Kumar Mittal - Redmond WA, US
Xin Li - Redmond WA, US
Zhipeng Zhao - Bellevue WA, US
Zubin Alexander - Bothell WA, US
Kevin C. Gammill - Beaux Arts WA, US
Qin Zhou - Kirkland WA, US
Yonit Manna - Bellevue WA, US
Brian James Hardy - Duvall WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09B 7/00
G06F 9/54

434362, 719313

Described is a technology in which an educational service provides contracts (an interface set) for calling functions that allow management of educational-related data. The interface set may be divided as interfaces to various services; roles associated with users of the educational service determine which interfaces/functions each user can call. The interfaces may include interfaces for calling course-related functions (e.g., of a course service), profile-related functions (e.g., of a profile service), membership-related functions (e.g., of a membership service) and task-related functions (e.g., of a task service). Other interfaces may include interfaces for calling plan-related functions, group-related functions, content-related functions, notification-related functions, provisioning-related functions, institution-related functions, department-related functions, utilities-related functions, standards-related functions, degree program-related functions, contextual communication-related functions and/or scoring related functions.