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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Marshall Scot Bjerke, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert Tobkes, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryan David Cooke, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew Robert Miller, Sr., Issaquah, WA (US);
Jonathan Wayne Phillips, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander M. Tkatch, Sammamish, WA (US);
David R. Shutt, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A tenant comprising one or more users receives services from a cloud computing system ('CCS'). The CCS determines when a tenant is not using any services, and if so, the CCS initiates a tenant suspension process. The tenant suspension process involves suspending various asynchronous computing processes for the tenant, which execute otherwise execute even if no users of the tenant are currently accessing the CCS. After a period of non-use of the CCS, the tenant is suspended. The tenant is returned to an active state automatically when a user of the tenant logs-on to receive services.