Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Narayana Mahankali

Edward F Reus

Kancheng Cao

Jeffrey S Roberts

Barbara Harder

Anna Magdalena Hester

Mike Zoran

Suraj Gaurav

Mahmood Ahmed Dhalla

Mark David Coburn

Anna M Hester

A set of partial tenant objects are created within a hosted service. The set of partial tenant objects have placeholders for tenant identifiers, domain identifiers and user identifiers. Upon receiving a request to provision a tenant, a particular partition of the hosted service, corresponding to the tenant, is identified and a provisioning agent in the identified partition is called to provision the tenant. The provisioning agent selects one of the partial tenant objects which is bound to tenant-specific information, such as a specific tenant identifier, custom domain chosen by the tenant, and a user identifier input by the tenant.

Fast provisioning of tenants on a hosted service

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

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

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Narayana Mahankali