Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Balinder Malhi

Alexander Hopmann

Zach Rosenfield

Jason Matthew Cahill

Patrick Simek

Marc Keith Windle

Erick Raymundo Lerma

Akash Jeevan Sagar

Eric B Fox

Bimal Kumar Mehta

Sanjib Saha

Paul Maybee

Lee B Graber

Le Chang

Siunie A Sutjahjo

Randy David Thomson

Wei-Lun Lo

Yossi Levanoni

Anandhi Somasekaran

Fuyuan Bie

Marc Windle

Allen Zhang

Dharma Kiritkumar Shukla

Lei Sun

Mayank Mehta

Robert Brian Schmidt

Ankur Jauhari

Darius Snapkauskas

Wei-qiang Guo

Jonathan M Luk

Roshane Silva

Kalyan K Kona

Zohar Raz

Kumarswamy P Valegerepura

Corey Roussel

David L Racz

Sean Lamont Grant Livingston

Atanu Banerjee

Doron Bar-Caspi

Jacek A Korycki

Vipins Gopinadhan

Sundar Paranthaman

David Paul Harris Gorbet

Michelle Lee Dauphiny

Tarun Bhatia

Brad Smith

Ricardo Prates De Oliveira

Dylan Thomas Nunley

Joshua Jenkins

Srividya Mohan

Dave Lickorish

Manuel Ocampo

Vladimir Gerasimov

Guilherme Rodrigues Nogueira De Souza

Joshua Calvin Jenkins

In one embodiment, a network file management systemmay use a persistent metadata storeand an access control listto facilitate a batch rollout. The network file management systemmay maintain a content database. A network file management systemmay store a metadata set for the content databasein a separate persistent metadata store

Large scale network system upgrade

A system and method for detecting and preventing PSTN fraud and abuse in real time includes a detection engine and a call management engine. The system includes at least one user record, at least one call data record, at least one fraud score record, and at least one remediation record. A call management engine enables users to establish VoIP calls connections to destination phone numbers. A fraud detection engine screens VoIP call connections to detect potential fraud and generates fraud records and remediation records when potential fraud is detected. The fraud detection engine may additionally direct the call management to terminate a VoIP call connection.

Detecting and preventing fraud and abuse in real time

A migration framework includes a migration status data store that stores the migration status of a variety of different databases that are being migrated. A migration manager monitors the migration status of the different databases and invokes migration scripts to perform migration steps on the various databases, based upon their migration status. As the migration steps are completed, a status update component updates the migration status of the various databases that are being migrated.

Database migration

In one embodiment, a network system may be upgraded without losing access to write privileges to a network fileduring the system upgrade. A network file management systemmay execute a system upgrade. A network file management systemmay provide direct write access for a data fileto a user throughout the system upgrade.

Seamless upgrade for network system

An online service includes databases that are upgraded while still processing requests. For example, web servers continue to request operations on the database while it is being upgraded. The schema of the database is upgraded before the web servers are upgraded to utilize the upgraded schema. Changes that are made to the upgraded schema are backwards compatible with the schema being used during the upgrade process. Restrictions are placed on the operations performed on the database during the upgrade process. After upgrading the schema, the web servers of the online service are upgraded to use the upgraded schema.

Online database availability during upgrade

An online service includes managed databases that include one or more tenants (e.g. customers, users). A multi-tenant database may be split between two or more databases while the database being split continues processing requests. For example, web servers continue to request operations on the database while content is being moved. After moving the content, tenant traffic is automatically redirected to the database that contains the tenant's content.

Dynamically splitting multi-tenant databases

A cloud manager assists in deploying and managing networks for an online service. The cloud manager system receives requests to perform operations relating to configuring, updating and performing tasks in networks that are used in providing the online service. The management of the assets may comprise deploying machines, updating machines, removing machines, performing configuration changes on servers, Virtual Machines (VMs), as well as performing other tasks relating to the management. The cloud manager is configured to receive requests through an idempotent and asynchronous application programming interface (API) that can not rely on a reliable network.

Managing networks and machines for an online service

Large messages in the form of hierarchically structured documents are processed in a streaming fashion using the ultimate consumer read requests as the driving force for the processing. The messages are partitioned into fixed length segments. The segments are processed in pipeline fashion. This processing chain includes simulating random access of hierarchical documents using stream transformations, mapping streams to a transport's native capabilities, composing streams into chains and using pipeline processing on the chains, staging fragments into a database and routing messages when complete messages have been formed, and providing tools to allow the end user to inspect partial messages.

Scalable storage and processing of hierarchical documents

Modifying a componentized workflow model during execution of the workflow. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via user interfaces or application programming interfaces. Metadata is associated with each of the activities in the workflow. During execution of the workflow, the user modifies the metadata to affect execution of the workflow without recompiling the workflow.

Framework for seamlessly authoring and editing workflows at design and runtime

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