Patent ID: 7720904
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A consumer service, which is a consumer of data from an owning service that owns the data, the owning service owning the data by creating an owned entity which is an encapsulation of the data and originating changes to the data, the consumer comprising: an entity projection, being a read-only encapsulation of desired and required data from the owning service, the desired data being data which are used by the consumer service, and the required data being data required to access the entity in the owning service a computer processor, being a functional component of the consumer service, receiving the entity projection generated by an entity projection generation tool and storing the entity projection on a data store local to the consumer, wherein the entity protection is read-only the computer processor receiving changes to the desired data, originated at the owning service, and applying the changes to the entity projection on the consumer service, the computer processor accessing the desired data in the entity projection, for use by the consuming service, using read only portions of an entity programming model defining how data is manipulated and maintained; wherein the data is represented by an internal entity, with corresponding properties, in the owning service, and wherein the properties in the entity projection comprise a desired subset of the properties of the internal entity in the owning service, the desired subset being specified by the consumer service.