April 23, 2012

VIA E-MAIL

Sam O’Rourke
Facebook Inc.
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Re: Yahoo! Inc. Server Patents and Facebook Data Centers

Dear Sam:

Pursuant to our earlier agreement to contact one another regarding intellectual property issues, I write to
bring a matter to your attention.

Based on publicly available information, we believe that Yahoo!’s proprietary server technology may be
relevant to Facebook’s data centers and their servers. Such technology is described and claimed in,
among others, United States Patents Nos.: 6,209,003; 6,279,001; 6,314,463; 6,317,786; 6,912,534;
6,976,093; 6,993,590; 7,035,943; 7,143,193; 7,243,136; 7,356,589; 7,581,006; 7,957,142; 7,430,118;
7,672,128; and 8,108,347.

The basis for our belief is the descriptions of certain aspects of Facebook’s data centers and servers in, for
example:

● Tom Furlong, Tech Talk: Open Compute Project, available at

https://www.facebook.com/Engineering/app_260691170608423
● Steve Furuta, Open Compute Project: Server Chassis and Triplet Hardware v1.0
● Tudor Golubenco, Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server,
http://golubenco.org/2009/09/19/understanding-the-code-inside-tornado-the-asynchronous-
web-server-powering-friendfeed/
● Andrew Mager, Tornado: The real-time web server from Facebook,
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/weblife/tornado-the-real-time-web-server-from-facebook/858
● Jay Park, Open Compute Project: Data Center v.1.0
● Jay Park, Designing a Very Efficient Data Center, available at
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150148003778920
 ● Xin Qi, HipHop for PHP: More Optimization for Efficient Servers
Servers,, available at
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150121348198920
://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150121348198920
● Jeff Rothschild, High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons Learned at Facebook,
Facebook
available at http://www.slides
http://www.slideshare.net/mozion/facebook-architecture-for
for-600m-users
● Paul Saab, Scaling memcached at Facebook
Facebook, available at
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919
● Martin Schoeller, A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm
Farm,, Time, at
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2036928,00.html
● Jason Sobel, Scaling Out
Out, available at
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=23844338919
● http://www.opencompute.org
● http://developers.facebook
http://developers.facebook.com/opensource
● http://www.tornadoweb.org

We also understand that at least one former Yahoo! employee who had responsibility ini connection with
Yahoo!’s data centers now has responsibility over the operations of Facebook’s data centers.

I would like to discuss this matter with you on or before Thursday, April 26, 2012. Please provide a time
on or before that date that you will be available.

Thanks, and I look forward to talking with you.

Sincerely,

Kevin Kramer