Patent ID: 11960495
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method for accessing hidden state information from operators within a data processing system, comprising:
generating state information within an operator of the data processing system based on an input received from a data source;
generating an output utilizing the operator based on the state information, wherein the state information is not outputted from the operator;
providing, to the data processing system, a graph query comprising a request to determine the state information of the operator;
based on the graph query, accessing a node of an object information data structure via an object interface, wherein the node symbolically represents the operator by storing a copy of the state information of the operator, and wherein the object information data structure is a separate data structure from the operator that provides access to the node; and
receiving, from the data processing system, the copy of the state information obtained from the node in the object information data structure.