Patent ID: 8468129

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of sharing user enrollment data, comprising: receiving requests from users to enroll with a web-based service, a plurality of computing devices run separate instances of the web-based service; assigning the users to the plurality of computing devices, one computing device per user; at each computing device of the plurality of computing devices, maintaining one or more blocks of user enrollment data of the users assigned to the computing device; in response to one or more of the computing devices being assigned a threshold number of users, designating the one or more of the computing devices as one or more deactivated computing devices which are not assigned additional users, while a subset of computing devices of the plurality of computing devices remain as active computing devices and are assigned additional users; and causing the active computing devices to update one another regarding the one or more blocks of the active computing devices with more urgency than an urgency by which the active computing devices update the one or more deactivated computing devices regarding the one or more blocks of the active computing devices.