Google Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Giles Douglas

Ross Koningstein

Vikas Sukla

Emmett Andrew Cunningham

Michael Schulman

Saksiri Tanphaichitr

David S Labuda

Jayaprakash Krishnamoorthy

James R Haddock

Keith M Brefczynski

Alexander Rockel

David Scott Labuda

A real-time customer relation management system is disclosed. The system can provide increased availability, reduced internal latencies, and reduced data processing and transfer. The system can provide real time processing and batch processing. The system architecture can have an in-memory write-through cache. The cache can store data that would have otherwise been sent to a database. The system can have a backup in-memory write-through cache. The system can use a warm standby, for example, to enhance data backup efficiency.

Revenue management system and method utilizing database backup

A computer-implemented method of providing advertising to a client includes establishing a billing experience between a client and a provider, providing advertising opportunities to the client on at least one of a continual basis and a periodic basis, evaluating a credit risk associated with the client at least one of periodically and upon occurrence of an event, and modifying the billing experience automatically based on the credit risk associated with the client.

Flexible advertiser billing system with mixed postpayment and prepayment capabilities

The present invention relates to systems and methods for managing risk in business transactions. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of managing risk exposure of a provide includes providing a product from the provider to a client under an initial billing experience between the provider and the client, evaluating a credit risk associated with the client at least one of periodically or upon occurrence of an event, and modifying a credit line the provider is willing to offer the client.

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