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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2005
Bhaskar A. Parvathaneni, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lie Yang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Meher Tendjoukian, Burlingame, CA (US);
Venkatachary Srinivasan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bhaskar A. Parvathaneni, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lie Yang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Meher Tendjoukian, Burlingame, CA (US);
Venkatachary Srinivasan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for updating user data from multiple data sources in a data gateway are disclosed. The data gateway includes a persistent job table for centrally storing jobs to be processed by the plurality of servers, a server table for centrally storing statuses of activities of the plurality of servers, and a job engine for processing job requests from the multiple data sources using the persistent job table and the server table. The data gateway includes a server farm having a plurality of servers, and where both the persistent job table and the server table reside outside the plurality of servers. The data gateway further includes a virtual Internet Protocol load balancer for dynamically mapping of jobs to be processed to particular servers according to user identifiers.