Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zillow, Inc.

Marcin D Szuster

Rob M Mensching

Michael Ronn Marcelais

Andrew M Himberger

Randy Winston Puttick

Tracey M Gauthier

Chloe Linden Harford

Timothy VanderMey

Jeffrey Thomas Brinker

Fred Farhad Sadaghiani

Stephen Martin McNamee

A facility for representing home attribute values for a plurality of homes and a plurality of home attributes is described. The facility incorporates a data structure comprising, for each of the plurality of homes, for each of the plurality of attribute value sources, the capacity to store values for any of the plurality of home attributes obtained from the attribute value source.

Collecting and representing home attributes

Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media provide for network location overrides for a client to utilize when accessing network hosted services. A client computer obtains network locations for hosted services from a network location, such as a URL of a configuration server. Any overrides providing different network locations for one or more of the hosted services are obtained from a store of the client computer, such as from a system registry provided by the operating system. The network location of an override is then used in place of a network location specified at the configuration server to access the hosted service. The overrides may apply for all applications, certain applications, certain services of an application, or for certain users of the client computer.

Methods and computer systems for directing a client to network locations for network hosted services

A system and methods for sharing configuration information with multiple services, or processes, via shared memory. The configuration information, typically, comprises runtime information utilized by processes during operation, including without limitation, information describing data communication connections between the local computer and other computing resources (i.e., port and wire information), and information defining numeric values or character string values (i.e., genre and record information). The system architecture includes a plurality of APIs which: reside at the local computer; populate, manage, and control access to a shared memory containing the configuration information; and, are executable only by processes executing at the local computer, thereby limiting access to the shared memory. Access to the configuration information is further limited to only those processes identified as having appropriate permission. The methods enable the configuration information of the shared memory to be modified during local computer operation and without impeding access to the configuration information.

System and methods for sharing configuration information with multiple processes via shared memory

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Marcin D Szuster