Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Vmware, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Marius Popa

Mariyan Dimitrov Fransazov

Hristo H Ivanov

Ciprian Gerea

Michiel Johannes Wories

Ashwin S Needamangala

Daniel Stelian Mihai

Dmitry Sonkin

Ankit Kumar

Bruce A Prang

Jamie Layne White

Dennis Ono Tjandra

Lisa A Winn

Vui Chiap Lam

Bharath Siravara

Iulian Catalin Stafie

Mihnea Olteanu

Xin Yao

Cross-service usage is dynamically enforced for different network-based services. A cross-service control system may accept requests to specify a usage quota for a client for an interface of a network-based service. A rule to enforce the usage quota may be distributed to request handling nodes for the service. Usage measurements may be collected from the request handling nodes for requests received from the client via the interface. An update to the usage quota may be determined from an evaluation of the usage measurements. The rule at the request handling nodes may be updated to enforce the updated usage quota.

Dynamic cross-service usage enforcement for usage measured across multiple different network-based services

The current document is directed to methods and systems that efficiently distribute virtual-machine images ('VM images') among servers within large, distributed-computer-system-implemented IAAS platforms to facilitate temporally and computationally efficient instantiation of virtual machines within the servers. In implementations discussed below, VM images are stored in a distributed fashion throughout one or more distributed computing systems, using several different VM-image-distribution models, in order to balance computational-resource usage, temporal constraints, and other factors and considerations related to VM-image distribution and VM instantiation.

Methods and subsystems that efficiently distribute VM images in distributed computing systems

Runtime code hooking techniques are described in which a place holder instruction within a compiled module is used as an entry point to enable code hooking. A hook function to modify a target function is developed. At runtime, the target function to be modified is located. A place holder instruction within the target function is overwritten with instructions to cause execution of the hook function when the target function is called.

Runtime code hooking for print driver and functionality testing

A method and system is described herein for populating an object tree with data obtained from a relational data store. One query is issued to retrieve data for each object in a given level of the object tree. The data is stored in a table in an order, which corresponds to an order in which the objects of the object tree will be initialized. The data is read from the table in the order, and the corresponding object in the tree is initialized.

SMO scripting optimization

A method of generating commands for a database server includes accessing a script having parser-specific commands, a first set of database-specific commands and optional shell commands. A componentized batch parser splits out the different command types and converts the parser-specific commands into a second set of database-specific commands. The first set and second set of database-specific commands may be sent to a target database for execution. The optional shell commands may be executed by a user tool at a local console. The batch parser offers features including separation of parsing functions using batch separators, performing automatic substitution of tokens in the script with defined values or substitution of tokens by requesting token values via a client tool, stripping off comments and blanks spaces from processed commands, referencing and editing files outside the script, and the ability to connect to different servers.

Method and system for a batch parser

A method for uniform metadata retrieval generates an interface for requesting metadata from a relational database. A hierarchical metadata request can be received via the interface. The hierarchical metadata request can be translated into a relational database metadata request. The relational database metadata request is utilized to retrieve metadata from the relational database.

Uniform metadata retrieval

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