Eric A Fisk

Author:

Eric Gibson Fisk

ISBN #:

0720800595

US Patent:

7778983, Aug 17, 2010

Filed:

Mar 6, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/714690

Inventors:

Michael Philip Jorden - Redmond WA, US
Tristan Michael Root - Bothell WA, US
Eric Fisk - Seattle WA, US
Joseph Anthony East - Redmond WA, US
Vladimir Tankovich - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707695, 717168, 717169, 717170, 717171, 717172

Abstract:

An application migration planning manager is provided for scanning and reporting compatibility information of stored application files, followed by conversion of selected files from a first application version format to a target application version format. A scanning module scans selected files to determine whether the scanned files are formatted according to application versions that may be incompatible with target application versions. A reporting module reports the compatibility data for the scanned files. If scanned files include multiple versions of a given document or data, the scanned files may be passed to a version extraction module for stripping the files of all but a single version of the given document or data. Each stripped version may be saved as a separate additional file. The version-stripped files and the saved additional files then may be reported back to the reporting module for further processing.