Motivational Deployment Mechanism for Networked Systems
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJohn R. Douceur, Thomas Moscibroda
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Abstract
The described implementations relate to networked or distributed systems and more particularly to providing motivation for deployment of networked systems. One technique gathers a solicitation hierarchy in a distributed system. This technique also tracks contribution to the distributed system of participants within the hierarchy. This technique further probabilistically determines a participant as a lottery winner based at least in part on the solicitation hierarchy and the contribution.
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A method, comprising:
- gathering a solicitation hierarchy in a distributed system;
- tracking contribution to the distributed system of participants within the hierarchy;
- and,
- probabilistically determining a participant as a lottery winner based at least in part on the solicitation hierarchy and the contribution.
A network system comprising a lottery tree mechanism to encourage one or more of:
- network participation and network solicitation.
A lottery tree mechanism configured to probabilistically encourage participants to both contribute to a network system and to solicit new participants to the networked system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.