Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rudra Raj Mitra

Kutlay Topatan

Zhifeng Wang

Weiye Zhang

Michal Mieczyslaw Malinowski

Ken H Thai

Paramesh Siddesha

Tools and techniques for indexing and searching dynamically changing search corpora are provided. These tools may receive requests to upload documents over a network to an online document repository, and present a user interface to facilitate the upload. The user interface may include devices that are responsive to user activation to grant permission to at least one other user to search for content contained within the documents. Through the user interface, these tools may receive selections from the user related to granting the permission, with the documents being associated with share parameters that incorporate the user selections. Finally, the tools may receive identifications of the documents to be uploaded.

Indexing and searching dynamically changing search corpora

Development tools and a methodology for efficient development of distributed web services. A tool tracks changes in packages used to create images deployed for testing. Rather than build a complete image for each change, a current image may be created by substituting changed packages in a previously created image. Another tool allocates components of an image to a number of servers specified by a user of the tool. Such a tool simplifies integration testing of the web service by allowing a developer to initially test a web service on a single server or a small number of servers and then easily scale-up the test environment. The servers may be physical servers or may be virtual servers. Interface rules for packages that constitute the software for the web service are defined to reduce the likelihood of integration problems as the environment is scaled up.

Rapid development of distributed web service

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Rudra Raj Mitra