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Granted Patent B2
US 8,825,746 · App. 13/009,253 · Granted Sep 2, 2014

Unaffiliated web domain hosting service based on shared data structure

Inventors: Hari Ravichandran (Lexington, MA); Mark Moseley (Lexington, MA); Scott Lovell (Malden, MA); Brian Brock (Taunton, MA)
Assignee: Endurance International Group, Inc.
G06Q30/02G06Q10/06G06Q30/0201G06Q10/063G06Q30/0251G06Q30/0243G06Q30/0601
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Patent No.
US 8,825,746
App. No.
13/009,253
Granted
Sep 2, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A website hosting architecture provides a plurality of services to each of a plurality of unrelated websites, wherein when any one of the plurality of services is configured to be deployed to serve any one of the plurality of unrelated websites, the deployed service extracts data from a shared data structure that maintains data for at least a plurality of the unrelated websites.

Claims (10)

1. A method of website hosting, comprising:

serving a plurality of website hosting services, at least two different website hosting services of the plurality of website hosting services served from different service pools of servers, wherein each service pool of servers provides only one website hosting service and all servers of a service pool provide only the one website hosting service of the plurality of website hosting services;

deploying any of the plurality of website hosting services to meet website service requirements of a plurality of unrelated websites; and

accessing, with at least one deployed website hosting service, data from a shared data structure that maintains data for at least a plurality of the unrelated websites, the shared data structure includes a virtual file system;

wherein the shared data structure maintains data that facilitates configuring any one of the plurality of website hosting services to be deployed to serve any one of the plurality of unrelated websites; and

wherein the shared data structure is accessible to a plurality of servers configured into service pools for at least one of configuring and deploying any one or more of the plurality of website hosting services.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the shared data structure is configured in a distributed database.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the shared data structure includes data security features to ensure secure separation of data for at least a plurality of the unrelated websites.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a web hosting architecture for serving the plurality of website hosting services comprises a cloud computing based server architecture.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a web hosting architecture for serving the plurality of website hosting services comprises a grid computing based server architecture.

Assignments (13)
SUPERPRIORITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 17, 2025
From: MARKMONITOR INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.; A SMALL ORANGE, LLC; BLUEHOST INC.; HOSTGATOR.COM LLC; P.D.R SOLUTIONS (U.S.) LLC; MONSTERCOMMERCE, LLC
To: WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073963/0121 →
SUPERPRIORITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 17, 2025
From: MARKMONITOR INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.; A SMALL ORANGE, LLC; BLUEHOST INC.; HOSTGATOR.COM LLC; P.D.R SOLUTIONS (U.S.) LLC; MONSTERCOMMERCE, LLC
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073963/0186 →
FIRST LIEN GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS Recorded Oct 18, 2023
From: NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; WEB.COM GROUP, INC.; MARKMONITOR INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 065268/0277 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 17, 2021
From: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
To: NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 055691/0913 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2021
From: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; WEB.COM GROUP, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 055277/0783 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 6, 2013
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG
To: ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
Reel/Frame 031733/0624 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 9, 2012
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
To: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
Reel/Frame 029269/0041 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 9, 2012
From: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
Reel/Frame 029275/0724 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jul 13, 2012
From: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 028554/0400 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 22, 2011
From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
To: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
Reel/Frame 027433/0606 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 22, 2011
From: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 027437/0869 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Oct 19, 2011
From: THE ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC.
To: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
Reel/Frame 027090/0543 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2011
From: RAVICHANDRAN, HARI; MOSELEY, MARK; LOVELL, SCOTT; BROCK, BRIAN
To: ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC
Reel/Frame 025730/0715 →
Continuity (7)
Continuation 13007094 · Jan 14, 2011
Provisional Application 61295528 · Jan 15, 2010
Provisional Application 61303281 · Feb 10, 2010
Provisional Application 61345568 · May 17, 2010
Provisional Application 61376743 · Aug 25, 2010
Provisional Application 61295506 · Jan 15, 2010
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