Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Apurva F Dalia

Christopher J Saam

Venugopala Rao Moram

Christopher Gariepy

Yunus Mohammed

Sandeep P Karanth

Mukeshkumar M Beher

Michael A Pacholec

Joydeep Bhattacharyya

Lizhong Huang

Matthew S Augustine

Craig Allen Harry

Rodrigo Junqueira Lode

David Robert Shutt

Nishant Dani

Michael I Torres

Robert Thompson Whitney

Marcus Swenson

Bradley J Barrows

Michael L Torres

Brad Dean Thompson

Shan Jiang

Teoman Smith

Xiongijian Fu

Arthur Tao

Nikhil Bahubali

Methods and computer-readable media are provided herein for implementing custom application programming interfaces (API) for creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications. An offer management service API is implemented that provides methods for creating and modifying offers for packages of online applications. An offer provisioning API is implemented that provides methods enabling the provisioning of online applications for subscribers to offers. An application provider API is published and utilized to provision and maintain individual instances of online applications provided by application providers.

Creating managing, and provisioning packages of online applications

Creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications

The reliable writing of data to multiple data stores using a write agent. The overall write operation is managed by a write manager that is communicatively coupled to the write agent and to a certain data store. Upon determined that multiple data stores are to be written to, the write manager first instructs the write agent to perform a delay write to other data store(s). The delay write means that the write agents waits a delay time before performing the write unless instructed in the meantime to more immediately perform the write, and if a delay passes, does not perform the write without first checking that the write has been made to the certain data store. After instructing the write agent to delay write, the write manager attempts to write to the certain data store. Upon successfully writing to the certain data store, the write manager may instruct the write agent to proceed immediately.

Write agent delayed write to data stores

Online services offer modeling is provided. A system for managing online offers for products and services includes a components module, an offer module, a subscription module, a billing module and a change management module. The component module defines the properties of components that may be included in an offer. The offer module defines the features of the offer, including one or more components. The components may be a base component or an add-on component. The subscription module processes the provisioning of an offer. The market module specifies countries or regions in which offers are made available. The billing module processes billing and payment actions for an offer. The change management module processes alterations to a provisioned offer, inserting the properties of an add-on component into the properties of a base component.

Online services offer management

Permissions using a namespace is described. In an embodiment, a namespace system includes a network resource that has a resource permission, and includes a namespace that has one or more members associated with the namespace. The namespace system also includes a namespace permission to permission the network resource to one or more of the members of the namespace.

Permissions using a namespace

A method, system, and computer-readable medium for accessing and managing an online storage system is disclosed. Access to a storage resource in a multiple server storage system is provided by sending to a lookup partitioning service server a resource identifier that is associated with a storage resource stored in a particular storage partition of a storage server. The LPS returns the looked-up partition that stores the storage resource associated with the resource identifier. Access to the storage resource is then enabled to the looked-up storage partition.

Lookup partitioning storage system and method

Stale information is removed by a removal process so as to enhance the performance of a networked system. The networked system comprises a stored piece of information that has an accessed timestamp for defining the start of a stale period, which comprises a non-updating period preceding a decaying period. The networked system further comprises the removal process for removing the stored piece of information that has become stale because the stale period has expired and the stored piece of information has not been accessed during the decaying period.

Removal of stale information

The present invention provides an application programming interface ('API') to address book management functions for accessing and managing an integrated online address book clearinghouse. The API receives function calls from applications and executes one or more functions in response to the function calls. The address book functions manage address books of the integrated online address book clearinghouse by adding, deleting, updating, and finding address books, contacts, and groups of contacts of the address books. The API also verifies identity information to assure that each function call has authorization to access the desired address book. The API further includes a parameter processing module for processing function-specific parameters passed in data envelopes to the API by the applications. The API also includes a response generating module for responding to the application that sent a function call to the API.

Address book clearinghouse interface system and method

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Apurva F Dalia