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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. 16, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2006
Applicants:

Sanjay Agrawal, Sammamish, WA (US);

Lik Han Chu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Vivek R. Narasayya, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Sanjay Agrawal, Sammamish, WA (US);

Lik Han Chu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Vivek R. Narasayya, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The subject disclosure pertains to exploitation of sequence information in a workload for the purpose of performance tuning. An optimal or exhaustive approach to tune sequences by mapping to a shortest path problem is provided as well as powerful techniques that result in optimal or nearly optimal solutions. Also disclosed is greedy approach that is much more efficient than the optimal approach and yet also generates solutions of comparable quality. Further yet, systems and methods are provided that facilitate extraction of sequence information and implementation of recommendations.


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