Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dean M Wierman

Sandhya D Jain

Sarabjit Singh Seera

Balaji Shyamkumar

Fabrice Canel

Charles (Xi) Zhang

Charles Zhang

A politeness manager estimates traffic to the sites based on historical log data generated and sent by plug-ins or toolbars on client web browsers. The historical log data details dates and times the web browsers visit different web sites that is used to understand what timeframes specific web sites are busy and what timeframes the web sites are not busy. Crawl rates for different timeframes for a web site are determined based on the historical log data, and web crawlers are scheduled to crawl the web site according to the crawl rates to minimize the chances that web crawler requests are responsible for the site crashing.

Optimizing web crawling with user history

A method of configuring a mobile device allows an administrator to select multiple installation items from a set of possible installation items to include in a deployment package. At least one of the installation items includes parameters provided by an administrator that are requested from the administrator based on a configuration file associated with the installment items. The deployment package is transferred to a mobile device and the parameter values are extracted and are used to configure the mobile device.

Configuring a mobile device

Method and apparatus for configuring a mobile device

Growing community of inventors

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Dean M Wierman