Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Øystein Fledsberg

Helge Grenager Solheim

Jan-Ove Almli Karlberg

Tor Kreutzer

Øystein Torbjørnsen

Shamika Ruklan Jayasundara

Åge Andre Kvalnes

Evan Matthew Roark

Michael Susaeg

Åge Andre Kvalnes

A method comprising: storing, in a database, a list of geographical regions in which the party consents to their data being stored; receiving a request to store data of the party, wherein at least one of the data has a region-restriction that restricts the regions in which that data can be stored; determining, based on a respective region-restriction of a respective one of the data, in which of the list of regions the respective data can be stored; storing the data, wherein each respective data is stored in at least one respective storage centre associated with one of the regions according to the determination; storing, in the database, a list comprising a pointer to each respective stored data, wherein the pointer identifies the respective storage centre; receiving a request to retrieve a respective stored data; and using the pointer to route the request to the respective storage centre.

Managing data resources

Indexing and searching features are provided including associated system, methods, and other implementations. A computing system of an embodiment is configured to reuse or repurpose physical index fields for different tenants as part of providing efficient and scalable indexing and searching services. A method of one embodiment operates to provide an indexed data structure that includes a number of reusable index fields that are shared and used to index information associated with a plurality of tenants. Other embodiments are included.

Indexing and searching features including using reusable index fields

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Trondheim, Norway

Øystein Fledsberg