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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ariel Gordon, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Balagopal Chenicheri, Renton, WA (US);
Megan M. Rawley, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to utilize the network effect of end-user viral adoption of collaborative services and applications hosted by multi-tenant computing systems. A system can achieve this by automatically clustering users who independently send requests to generate new tenants. A number of factors can enable a system to cluster users into a single tenant including characteristics of requests to generate new tenants and/or member identities received in association with requests to generate new tenants. Examples of request characteristics can include network addresses indicating a source of each request, a domain name or entity names received in association with a request, a rate in which requests are received, and/or heuristic techniques that utilize various combinations of these and other factors. The automatic selection of users for specific tenants allows a system to allow viral user adoption without a centralized IT manager.