公开(公告)号：EP1618487A4

公开(公告)日：2010-02-17

申请号：EP04779553

申请日：2004-07-29

申请人： MICROSOFT CORP

发明人： TEREK F SONER ,  KALHAN AJAY ,  PONNEKANTI NAGAVAMSI ,  RANGARAJAN SRIKUMAR ,  ZWILLING MICHAEL J

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/4435 ,  G06F17/30988

摘要： A method and system for fragment-based serialization places one or more object members in fragments. Fragments may comprise a header and a payload. A header can provide useful information about the fragment, such as an indication of fragment type and an indication of fragment length. A payload may comprise one or more members of an object. Primitive members may be stored in a Binary Fragment with a record format payload. LOB and FS members may be stored in fragments that have a Value Type field for setting forth additional properties of the fragment. Collections may be stored in a series of fragments, a first fragment to indicate a start of a collection, one or more second fragments to serialize collection elements, and a Terminator Fragment to indicate the end of a collection. Fragment-serialized objects minimize storage overhead while providing fast instantiation and low-cost location and updating.