Patent 7526501 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on April, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates handling a change associated with a database. An interface that can receive data associated with a change to data via an object graph. A state transition logic component that can maintain the change related to the object graph utilizing a context and a respective set of rules, the context employs metadata to view the object graph with an abstraction of at least one of an entity and a relationship.