Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Pivotal Software, Inc.

Google Inc.

Vmware, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Mark H Lucovsky

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Vadim Spivak

Derek Collison

Gerald C Chen

Arthur Zwiegincew

Paul J Leach

Lijiang Fang

Paul Andrew Steckler

Winnie C Wu

Ramnivas Laddad

Eric J Horvitz

Richard Bruce Ward

Carl Phillip Sjogreen

Derek L Collison

George M Moore

Debi P Mishra

Ferhan Elvanoglu

Bharat Shah

Markus Horstmann

Eugene N Nonko

Vivek Gundotra

Daniel Ron Simon

Suraj T Poozhiyil

Amit Mital

Joseph D Belfiore

Eric D Rudder

John D Vert

David G Campbell

Jonathan D Pincus

Tandy Woodson Trower, Ii

Keith W Short

Jason A Bould

Steven M Cellini

Cyrus R Balsara

Steve Capps

Richard Shawn McDowell

Robert M Hyman

Michael Burner

Kaviraj Singh

Peter M Spiro

David Vaskevitch

David E Kays, Jr

Charles T Fitzgerald

Daniel F Plastina

David N Cutler

Alexander Thomas Weinert

Burra Gopal

Peter Sewall Ford

Shannon J Chan

Samuel John George

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Steven D White

Christian Kleinerman

Jagadeesh Kalki

William Raymond Hoffman

Michael B Taylor

William G Parry

Rod N Gamache

Adam Bosworth

Shaun David Cox

David Michael Sauntry

David E Kays

Salar Arta Kamangar

David S Bakin

Kent Skaar

Tandy W Trower, Ii

Darryl E Havens

Ramu Movva

Walter C Hsueh

Gregory A Jensenworth

Suresh Kannan

Steven R Wood

Michael J Cherry

David Benjamin Auerbach

Kendall D Keil

Chris Kaler

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yi-Wen Guu

Philip Michael Smoot

Paul A Maritz

Rhae-Christie Shaw

Killian Murphy

John M Gehlsen

Paul Martiz

Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Oleg Shaldybin

Paul A Steckler

Shaun D Pierce

A cloud computing environment provides the ability to deploy a web application that has been developed using one of a plurality of application frameworks and is configured to execute within one of a plurality of runtime environments. The cloud computing environment receives the web application in a package compatible with the runtime environment and dynamically binds available services by appropriately inserting service provisioning data into the package. The cloud computing environment then packages an instance of the runtime environment, a start script and the package into a web application deployment package, which is then transmitted to an application. The application container unpacks the web application deployment package, installs the runtime environment, loads the web application package into the runtime environment and starts the start script, thereby deploying the web application in the application container.

Droplet execution engine for dynamic server application deployment

A policy engine is situated within the communications path of a cloud computing environment and a user of the cloud computing environment to comply with an organization's policies for deploying web applications in the cloud computing environment. The policy engine intercepts communications packets to the cloud computing environment from a user, such as a web application developer, for example, in preparation for deploying a web application in the cloud computing environment. The policy engine identifies commands corresponding to the communications packets and directs the communications packets to appropriate rules engines corresponding to such commands in order to execute rules to comply with an organization's policies. Upon completion of execution of the rules, the communications packets are forwarded to the cloud computing environment if they comply with the policies.

Policy engine for cloud platform

A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.

Actionable email documents

A cloud computing environment provides the ability to deploy a web application that has been developed using one of a plurality of application frameworks and is configured to execute within one of a plurality of runtime environments. The cloud computing environment receives the web application in a package compatible with the runtime environment (e.g., a WAR file to be launched in an application server, for example) and dynamically binds available services by appropriately inserting service provisioning data (e.g., service network address, login credentials, etc.) into the package. The cloud computing environment then packages an instance of the runtime environment, a start script and the package into a web application deployment package, which is then transmitted to an application (e.g., container virtual machine, etc.). The application container unpacks the web application deployment package, installs the runtime environment, loads the web application package into the runtime environment and starts the start script, thereby deploying the web application in the application container.

A cloud computing environment provides the ability to deploy a web application that has been developed using one of a plurality of application frameworks and is configured to execute within one of a plurality of runtime environments. The cloud computing environment receives the web application in a package compatible with the runtime environment and dynamically binds available services by appropriately inserting service provisioning data (e.g., service network address, login credentials, etc.) into the package. The cloud computing environment then packages an instance of the runtime environment, a start script and the package into a web application deployment package, which is then transmitted to an application (e.g., container virtual machine, etc.). The application container unpacks the web application deployment package, installs the runtime environment, loads the web application package into the runtime environment and starts the start script, thereby deploying the web application in the application container.

Cloud platform architecture

A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. In one implementation, the search results may be automatically generated by the system based on user input to a content creation application.

Sharing user distributed search results

A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. In one implementation, a content creation application includes a first interface configured to facilitate composition of a message by a user and a second interface configured to receive a search query from the user, display search results relating to the search query, and receive selections of the search results from the user. The messaging application automatically incorporates, in response to the selections, the selected ones of the search results into the message in the first interface.

A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. Search queries entered by the user or search results received from search components may be automatically refined by the system.

A method of forming a multi-user online collaboration includes automatically receiving and processing a plurality of communications, including comparing the plurality of communications with collaboration launch criteria. When a received communication meets the collaboration launch criteria, a participant in the communication is invited to generate a multi-user online collaboration. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a group of communications, comparing the group of communications with the collaboration launch criteria to produce a comparison result, and generating a collaborative metric in accordance with the comparison result.

System and method for forming multi-user collaborations

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