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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2005
Applicants:

John Keith Bankston, Bothell, WA (US);

Michael H Ammerlaan, Redmond, WA (US);

Suresh Tharamal, Sammamish, WA (US);

Inventors:

John Keith Bankston, Bothell, WA (US);

Michael H Ammerlaan, Redmond, WA (US);

Suresh Tharamal, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method is provided that centrally stores in a server farm custom jobs defined by developers or administrators of the server farm. The system and method enables the server farm to automatically distribute the jobs to servers in the server farm and to execute the jobs according to parameters defined for the jobs.


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