Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a soft chewable formulation, especially suitable for delivering active ingredients to animals and processes for preparation thereof. In some embodiments of the disclosure, a soft chewable veterinary formulation includes a starch, one or more carbohydrates, a flavoring agent, a lipid, and at least one active ingredients. In accordance with some embodiments, the starch in the soft chewable formulations includes a certain ratios of regular starch and pre-gelatinized starch.

Abstract: An automated published data monitoring system implements a content validation service capable of validating published data in accordance with programmable criteria. A root data location is provided and validation of such data includes crawling a hierarchical organization of additional data. Deserializers are specific to identified collections of data and deserialize data into strongly typed data structures that are programmatically validatable. Deserializers register themselves to handle collections of data identified based upon the location and domain of such data. Additionally, validators are specific to types of data structures and programmatically validate such data structures including validating their type and their correctness, the latter as compared to statically or dynamically defined limits. Validators register themselves to handle specified types of data structures originating from specific data collections.

Abstract: A scalable computing system for managing dynamic communities stores and provides access to community and member information. A community is a dynamic and virtual association of users. Some example features of a community include: a home page, membership, non-real time based messaging (threaded messages), chats, community calendar, annotations, and management tools for access control. The scalable architecture of the computing system for managing dynamic communities provides a computing system capable of handling the increasing number of community members and the community elements associated with the community.

Abstract: A method and computing system for providing a highly reliable web site that is capable of handling millions of Internet users per day. The computing system is customizable on a per user basis yet seamlessly aggregates data from a number of information providers, such as news services, weather services, stock services, personal email, and even a community specific service. The computing system includes a plurality of personalization stores that maintain personalization data for a corresponding Internet user. The computing system is based on a federated model in which a single entry point spans to a plurality of web servers. Each web server has an aggregation module, such as an Internet Server API (ISAPI) filter, that retrieves user-specific data “clips” from the personalization store and passes the data to one or more provider objects.

Abstract: A massively scalable architecture for providing a highly reliable storage system that is capable of handling hundreds of millions of users and tens of billions of files. The system includes one or more clusters storing data elements that are received from a plurality of clients. Each cluster comprises a plurality of storage servers. A partition master assigns each client a unique partition within one of the clusters such that each data element is stored in the partition assigned to the client. The storage system can be easily scaled as the number of reads increases by adding individual storage servers to each storage cluster. In addition, the storage system easily scales to handle an increase in the number of writes, or as the number of files per cluster exceeds a predefined limit, by adding new storage clusters to the storage system.

Abstract: A method and computing system for providing a highly reliable web site that is capable of handling millions of Internet users per day. The computing system is customizable on a per user basis yet seamlessly aggregates data from a number of information providers, such as news services, weather services, stock services, personal email, and even a community specific service. The computing system includes a plurality of personalization stores that maintain personalization data for a corresponding Internet user. The computing system is based on a federated model in which a single entry point spans to a plurality of web servers. Each web server has an aggregation module, such as an Internet Server API (ISAPI) filter, that retrieves user-specific data “clips” from the personalization store and passes the data to one or more provider objects.