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Scalable software blade architecture

US7873696B2 · kind B2 · utility

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36Claims

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Assignee

YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC. · US

Inventors

Venkatachary Srinivasan · Sunnyvale, US
Markus Meyer · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Torsten Schulz · Pinneberg, DE
Marco Boerries · Los Altos Hills, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 28, 2005
Grant date	Jan 18, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 9, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/63
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for servicing user accounts are disclosed. The system includes one or more blades for servicing the user accounts, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, and each blade serves a group of user accounts, a blade manager for managing states of the one or more blades, and logic for incrementally adding one or more new blades in response to increase in the number of new user accounts.

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