Receiving individual documents to serve

• US 9,185,163 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2011
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Yuan, Daniel, Sharman, Neil, Goyal, Jay, Jain, Utkarsh, Sharma, Vibhaakar, Deshpande, Vinay, Firestein, Oren
• Primary Examiner(s): GEBRESENBET, DINKU W
• Application Number:
  US13/082,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20120257246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,677 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/358 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

Methods and systems for quickly serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually communicated to a document server prior to batching the documents. By individually communicating documents to document servers, the document experiences sub-second latency before it is available to a user. The documents may also be modified individually such that real-time serving is not interrupted.

Claims

1. A method being performed by one or more computing devices including at least one processor, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of documents that are available from a document provider, wherein each document of the plurality of documents is any web document;

assigning each document of the plurality of documents to a document distributor having a plurality of document servers associated therewith, wherein the plurality of document servers receives documents only from the document distributor associated therewith;

identifying that one of the plurality of documents servers is failing;

reassigning the failing document server'"'"'s responsibilities to a replacement document server;

updating the replacement document server such that the replacement document server is identical to each document server in the plurality of document servers and configured to serve a single document of the plurality of documents; and

prior to completion of a batching process where multiple documents are grouped together for serving, serving the single document of the plurality of documents to be batched.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein web documents include websites and web pages.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein documents are served to the user in response to receiving a search query input.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying one or more document keys assigned to each of the plurality of documents by the document provider;

associating each document of the plurality of one or more documents with document identifiers; and

mapping the one or more document identifiers to the one or more document keys.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing the plurality of documents for communication to a document server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the single document of the plurality of documents is served to the user immediately upon receiving the plurality of documents from the document provider.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the single document of the plurality of documents by searching content of the document provider.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the single document of the plurality of documents as a result of the document provider streaming the document.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the single document is communicated to a document server such that only the document server is associated with the single document.

10. One or more computer storage media devices storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of documents that are available from a document provider, wherein each document of the plurality of documents is any web document;

assigning each document of the plurality of documents to a document distributor having a plurality of document servers associated therewith, wherein the plurality of document servers receives documents only from the associated document distributor;

identifying that one of the plurality of document servers is failing;

reassigning the failing document server'"'"'s responsibilities to a replacement document server; and

updating the replacement document server such that the replacement server is identical to each document server in the plurality of document servers and configured to serve a single document of the plurality of documents, wherein the single document of the plurality of documents was to be batched with the plurality of documents but is served prior to completion of a batching process.

11. The one or more computer storage media devices of claim 10, wherein each document server of the plurality of document servers associated with the document distributor are identical.

12. The one or more computer storage media devices of claim 10, wherein web documents include websites and web pages.

13. The one or more computer storage media devices of claim 10, wherein the replacement document server is updated and is identical to each document server in the plurality of document servers such that the replacement server is configured to individually serve documents prior to completion of the batching process that groups documents together to serve as a group.

14. The one or more computer storage media devices of claim 13, wherein documents are served to users in response to a search query input.

15. The one or more computer storage media devices of claim 10, wherein the single document of the plurality of documents is served to the user immediately upon receiving the plurality of documents.

16. A system for serving documents, the system comprising:

one or more processors coupled to a computer storage medium, the computer storage medium having stored thereon a plurality of computer software components executable by the processor, the computer software components comprising;

a receiving component that receives a plurality of documents that are available from a document provider, wherein each document of the plurality of documents is any web document;

a managing component that;

assigns each document of the plurality of documents to a document distributor having a plurality of document servers associated therewith; and

identifies that a first document server of the plurality of document servers is failing;

a replacement component that replaces the first document server with a replacement document server and reassigns the first document server'"'"'s responsibilities to the replacement document server;

an updating component that updates the replacement document server such that the replacement document server is identical to each document server in the plurality of document servers and configured to serve a single document of the plurality of documents to be batched; and

a serving component that, prior to completion of a batching process where multiple documents are grouped together for serving, serves the single document of the plurality of documents to be batched.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a recording component that records data accumulated on the plurality of document servers since the first document server failed.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the serving component serves the single document in response to receiving a search query input.