Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeffrey S Roberts

Edward F Reus

Stephen Scott Evans

Michael D Zoran

Kancheng Cao

Barbara Harder

Narayana Mahankali

Anna Magdalena Hester

Mike Zoran

Mahmood Ahmed Dhalla

Ishtiyaq Ahmad Sheikh

Anna M Hester

Embodiments of the invention use incomplete metadata, automated heuristics, and user input to construct a data model implemented by a set of commands used in a scripting environment. A combination of a static analysis and a runtime analysis of the scripting environment may be used to determine the data model. Commands that enumerate resources are identified. Return types for the commands are discovered either from a definition of the command or by running the command with default parameters. Properties for the return types are identified and key fields are identified for indexing. Relationships between the return types are identified, and additional commands associated with the return types are identified. The return type properties are analyzed to identify updatable return types. A data model of the scripting environment is created from the collected information.

Automated discovery of resource definitions and relationships in a scripting environment

Example embodiments allow a local network client to access information about a shared gateway to determine its actual amount of bandwidth consumption. The client can also obtain the total capacity of such shared gateway. Using its knowledge of its own bandwidth consumption, it can determine the other local network clients' usage of the shared gateway. With all of this information, i.e., total capacity of the shared gateway, the actual usage of the shared gateway, and the usage by other clients within the local network, the client can adjust or throttle background file transfers in order to keep the actual data transfers across the shared gateway within a reasonable percentage of the total capacity available. That is, a client will give priority to other local network computing machines' usage of the shared gateway by adjusting data transfers for its own background transfer system based on usage across a shared gateway.

Background network bandwidth sharing behind gateway devices

A method is provided for transferring a set of data over a network by monitoring the level of actual network bandwidth utilization. The method identifies a maximum monitored level of actual utilization and calculates a size for data blocks to be transferred as a function of the maximum monitored level of utilization. The data blocks represent a segment of a set of data, such as a software update that may be transferred or downloaded over the network without interfering with other network activity.

Method for transferring data over a network

Distributed caching and download of file. A method is described that includes building a peer list comprising a listing of potential peer servers from among one or more networked computers. The peer list includes no more than a predetermined number of potential peer servers. Potential peer servers in the peer list are queried for a file or portion of a file. A message from a peer server in the peer list is received indicating that the peer server has the file or portion of a file available for download. The computer system downloads the file or portion of a file from the peer server.

Distributed caching of files in a network

A system and computer-readable media are provided for transferring data over a network. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the system includes a monitoring component, which monitors the level of actual network bandwidth utilization. The system also includes an identification component, which operates to identify a maximum monitored level of actual utilization. A calculating component then calculates a block size of data to transfer as a function of the maximum monitored level of utilization. The block size may be bounded between a maximum threshold value and a minimum threshold value. A receiving component then operates to receive the block size portion of the set of data over the network at one or more intervals. In another aspect of the invention, the block size is not bounded, and the system includes an interval adjustment component, which increases the size of the intervals when the block size is below a minimum threshold and decreases the size of the intervals when the block size exceeds a maximum threshold.

System for transferring data over a network

A system and computer-readable media are provided for refining network utilization determination and download data block sizes in the transfer of a set of data over a network. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the system includes a monitoring component, which obtains a network utilization rate at a plurality of intervals. The system also determines an average of the network utilization rates and calculates a block size of data to transfer during the intervals as a function of the average. The average may be weighted by allocating a higher ratio to the more recently obtained network utilization rate. The calculated block size may be directly proportional to the product of the average, the size of the interval, and network availability. Alternatively, the size of the intervals may be adjusted based on the calculated block size.

System for refining network utilization and data block sizes in the transfer of data over a network

A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for managing the transfer of data over a network. In accordance with one method of the invention, the level of actual network bandwidth utilization is monitored. A timestamp indicating when the level of actual network bandwidth utilization was monitored is then provided. In addition, the quantity of data that had passed through the network interface at the time corresponding to the timestamp is determined.

Method and system for managing data transfer over a network

A method is provided for transferring a set of data over a network by monitoring the level of actual bandwidth utilization. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a maximum monitored level of actual utilization and calculating a size for data blocks to be transferred as a function of the maximum monitored level of utilization. The data blocks represent a segment of a set of data, such as a software update that may be transferred or downloaded over the network without interfering with other network activity at the network interface. The size of the data blocks are bounded by a maximum and minimum threshold value. Computed block sizes allow effective utilization of the network bandwidth while also allowing an adaptation that supports a degree of responsiveness both on fast and slow networks.

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Jeffrey S Roberts