Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vidyasankar Raman

Edward F Reus

Marc Shepard

Mazhar Naveed Mohammed

Thottam Sriram

Derek Menzies

David B Dehghan

Nirmal Rajesh Soy

Varadarajan Thiruvillamalai

David Cris Hennessey

Jason J Roberts

Jianbo Hou

Xiang He

Congjie Mi

Shripad Kulkarni

Duke Kamstra

Lie Ma

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for throttling and management of notifications. A rules manager stores definitions of multiple classes of notifications for sending to recipients. Each of the classes has a respective set of throttling parameters that enables notifications in each class to be selectively throttled. A notification monitor monitors the number of notifications in each class transmitted to a plurality of recipients over time. In response to determining that a threshold number of notifications of a class have been transmitted to a recipient during an interval of time, the recipient is placed in a throttled mode for the class that reduces a subsequent number of notifications transmitted to the recipient. The threshold number may be dependent upon a transmission channel of the notification. The recipient is informed of being placed in the throttled mode and provided an indication of where subsequent notifications can be accessed.

Intelligent throttling and notifications management for monitoring and incident management systems

A hierarchical software update distribution system and method for distributing software updates is presented. The update distribution system includes a root update service node and at least one update service node. In an update distribution system, each update service node, except the root update service node, has one parent update service node. Each update service node may function as a parent update service node to child update service nodes.

Update distribution system architecture and method for distributing software

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Vidyasankar Raman