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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2005
Applicants:

Philippe Choquier, Kirkland, WA (US);

Quentin J. Clark, Bellevue, WA (US);

William D. Devlin, Redmond, WA (US);

Lara N. Dillingham, Seattle, WA (US);

Cameron J. A. Ferroni, Seattle, WA (US);

Justin Grant, Seattle, WA (US);

Rodney T. Limprecht, Woodinville, WA (US);

John F. Ludeman, Redmond, WA (US);

Alexander E. Mallet, Bellevue, WA (US);

Boyd C. Multerer, Seattle, WA (US);

Martin J. Sleeman, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael W. Thomas, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Philippe Choquier, Kirkland, WA (US);

Quentin J. Clark, Bellevue, WA (US);

William D. Devlin, Redmond, WA (US);

Lara N. Dillingham, Seattle, WA (US);

Cameron J. A. Ferroni, Seattle, WA (US);

Justin Grant, Seattle, WA (US);

Rodney T. Limprecht, Woodinville, WA (US);

John F. Ludeman, Redmond, WA (US);

Alexander E. Mallet, Bellevue, WA (US);

Boyd C. Multerer, Seattle, WA (US);

Martin J. Sleeman, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael W. Thomas, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A virtual applications architecture is provided according to the present invention. The architecture includes a topology manager for managing applications across a plurality of members, and a virtual applications manager for defining a plurality of resources comprising the applications. The topology manager communicates with the plurality of members to initiate scaling of the applications associated with the virtual applications manager to the members. The architecture may also include a replication system for deploying the applications to the members.


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