Yahoo! Inc.

Bhaskar A Parvathaneni

Venkatachary Srinivasan

Meher Tendjoukian

Lie Yang

Method and apparatus for updating user data from multiple data sources in a data gateway are disclosed. The data gateway includes a persistent job table for centrally storing jobs to be processed by the plurality of servers, a server table for centrally storing statuses of activities of the plurality of servers, and a job engine for processing job requests from the multiple data sources using the persistent job table and the server table. The data gateway includes a server farm having a plurality of servers, and where both the persistent job table and the server table reside outside the plurality of servers. The data gateway further includes a virtual Internet Protocol load balancer for dynamically mapping of jobs to be processed to particular servers according to user identifiers.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Bhaskar A Parvathaneni