Google Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jsmapreduce Corporation

Microsoft Corporation

Ervin Peretz

Sasank Mudunuri

Kenneth D Ray

Karan Mehra

Landy Wang

Timothy Mark Moore

Firdosh Kersy Bhesania

Doron J Holan

Marcus J Andrews

James E Veres

Om Sharma

Scott Ludwig

Scott R Leatham

Jennifer Braithwaite

Robert Ingman

A computer-implemented method for generating a proposed bid includes receiving an input generated by a first content provider as part of a bidding process where content providers bid for opportunities to provide content for publication. The input indicates (i) a resource for publishing first content from the first content provider and (ii) a campaign characteristic associated with the first content. The method includes determining a proposed bid for the first content provider based on the input and on historical data from the bidding process associated with the resource. The method includes presenting the proposed bid to the first content provider.

Generating a proposed bid

The technology provides a hybrid local/remote hosted MapReduce framework and infrastructure comprising systems and methods for improving setup, configuration, controllability, debuggability, and integration of a compute job and systems and methods for increasing programmer productivity. The system applies an interpreted programming language for the programmer's custom Map and Reduce algorithms, such that those algorithms can execute identically on both the hosted service as well as locally (e.g., on the programmer's local computing system or device) for development and debugging purposes. Furthermore, the system delivers this service&#x2014;a hosted MapReduce infrastructure&#x2014;in a simple and transparent web service.

Hybrid local/remote infrastructure for data processing with lightweight setup, powerful debuggability, controllability, integration, and productivity features

A computer-implemented method for calling a party using a hosted calling service is disclosed. The method includes receiving at a calling module, using a standardized interface, a call request from a remote client, the standardized interface enabling interoperability between the calling module and heterogeneous remote clients, generating a call to a party specified by the call request, and transmitting a response received from the party to the remote client for client-specific processing.

Hosted calling service

A computer-implemented method for proposing a value to a user includes mapping a plurality of factual cost values for an item type according to amount, each of the factual cost values reflecting an amount that won a bidding process for an item of the item type. The method includes identifying an inflection point in the mapping that represents a first factual cost value. The method includes outputting a proposed value for the bidding process to a user, the proposed value generated using the first factual cost value. The method can be implemented using a computer program product.

Proposing a bid value to a user

The present invention utilizes pageable pool memory to provide, via a data verifier component, data verification information for storage mediums. By allowing the utilization of pageable pool memory, overflow from the pageable pool memory is paged and stored in a virtual memory space on a storage medium. Recently accessed verification information is stored in non-pageable memory, permitting low latency access. One instance of the present invention synchronously verifies data when verification information is accessible in physical system memory while deferring processing of data verification when verification information is stored in paged memory. Another instance of the present invention allows access to paged verification information in order to permit synchronous verification of data.

Systems and methods for enhanced stored data verification utilizing pageable pool memory

A computer peripheral has a processor, non-volatile memory, and a plurality of controls. The non-volatile memory holds control mappings corresponding to a plurality of application program genres. The control mappings indicate actions to be performed in application programs of particular genres in response to actuation of particular controls. The control mappings indicate controls by unique string indexes that are also used in HID control descriptors associated with the computer peripheral.

Game control device having genre data

The present invention provides a method and computer program product for providing, over a RF link conforming to the Bluetooth specification, a network message protocol which is bus-independent and was originally designed for bus-attached networking devices. One such network message protocol is the NDIS device management protocol. In such a manner, many computer software products designed to operate over a hard-wired (or bus-attached) network can also be used over a Bluetooth wireless network.

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Ervin Peretz