Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Patrick Edward Bozeman

Lei Wang

Nicholas Kushmerick

Manas Haribhai Somaiya

Tanmoy Chakraborty

An online system generates one or more models that determine a likelihood of a user interacting with an application over a particular time interval after installing the application. To generate the one or more models, the online system obtains information describing a user's interaction with the application that occurred greater than a threshold time period prior to a time for which user interaction with the application is to be determined. Example user interactions with the application include: usage of the application, numbers of particular interactions with the application, an amount of compensation the application receives from the user, interactions with other users of the application via the application, and any other suitable interactions. Various engagement metrics may be predicted by the one or more models such as an amount of time spent using the application, particular actions taken in the application, and revenue generated by the user in the application.

Accounting for long-term user interaction with an application in selection of content associated with the application by an online system

Selecting a storage device to be mapped to a requested virtual disk includes maintaining attributes for a set of storage devices including a cost attribute, a capacity attribute and quality-of-service attributes. A request for a virtual disk includes request parameters including a price parameter, a capacity parameter and quality-of-service parameters. A device selection function generates a score for each storage device based on the request parameters and the storage device attributes, and identifies a best suited storage device by comparing the respective scores of the storage devices. The virtual disk is then created in satisfaction of the request with a mapping to the identified storage device to provide underlying physical data storage for the virtual disk.

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Patrick Edward Bozeman