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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
May. 21, 2010
Malcolm Erik Pearson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Charles Setzer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Malcolm Erik Pearson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Charles Setzer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Scalable handling of billing events that affect one or more accounts. A computing system partitions received events into a number of channels, perhaps by account identifier. The channels receive the events, and perform de-duplication of the events. This de-duplication may be performed using a Bloom filter that is updated to reflect the receipt of any original event. The Bloom filter may be used to either determine that the event is not a duplicate of another, or to determine that the event cannot be ruled out as being a duplicate of another. In the latter case, further processing may be performed to for definitively determine whether the event is truly a duplication, or in the alternative, the event may be immediately treated as a duplicate.