Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Divye Khilnani

Nihar Niranjan Mehta

Jie Xiao

Yawen Wei

Kaiyang Liu

Siyu You

Dayun Li

Mingyuan Zhong

Sanjay Sachdev

Hardik Bati

Lihong Pei

Yingfeng Oh

Jianchao Lu

Mark Dietz

Christopher Harris

A content item generation system which implements techniques for selecting and identifying content items to return in response to a request is described. For example, the content item generation system may separate requirements included with a request into first and second sets of requirements. The first set of requirements may be used to identify which content items or content item campaigns may be suitable to respond to the request. The second set of requirements may be used to determine whether items associated with the selected content items or content item campaigns correspond to technical requirements specified in the request.

Multi-step validation of content items based on dynamic publisher requirements

Techniques are provided for securely obtaining trusted information in an online environment. A first entity stores trusted information from a third entity. A second entity retrieves the trusted information from the first entity. In response to a request from a computing device of the third entity, the first entity identifies a set of attributes selected by the second entity. The first entity identifies, from a profile of the third entity, a set of values that correspond to the set of attributes. The first entity may immediately transmit the set of values to the second entity or may first cause the set of values to be presented to the third entity, for example, in an electronic form. The form may allow some of the values to be editable by the third entity and may prevent other of the values to be edited.

Secure transmission of digital content over a computer network

A media item cache manager system which implements techniques for efficiently using cache memory to respond to requests. The cache memory may include information on items along with a status indicator for each of the items, indicating different status information. Some examples of possible status indicators include valid, invalid, or in-progress indicators.

Using status indicators in an item caching environment

A request filtration system that implements techniques to reduce load on a downstream service by efficiently filtering requests before they are processed by the downstream service. The request filtration system may be used by a request processing system to eliminate requests that satisfy any of one or more filters. For example, each filter specifies one or more attributes that may apply to one or more requests. If a request satisfies a filter, then the request is not considered by the downstream service or a content item does not need to be selected by the request processing system in response to the request.

Reducing load to downstream services by filtering requests

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