Patents by Inventor Clinton B. Battersby

Clinton B. Battersby has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230275851
    Abstract: A business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand, and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost. Conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user. Such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and/or disgruntled users. Costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user, or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user. Configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators (misprovisioning flags), and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul J. Gaffney
  • Patent number: 11671380
    Abstract: In a virtual computing environment, a virtual computing services deployment assigns a user to a computing class based on the expected resources that user will consume. A method includes defining computing classes and provisioning each user according to their assigned computing class. A portion of available resources are instantiated as a computing environment for the user based on the assigned computing class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20210399996
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Patent number: 11121982
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Publication number: 20210136005
    Abstract: A business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand, and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost. Conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user. Such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and/or disgruntled users. Costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user, or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user. Configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators (misprovisioning flags), and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul Gaffney
  • Patent number: 10897430
    Abstract: A business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand, and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost. Conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user. Such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and/or disgruntled users. Costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user, or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user. Configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators (misprovisioning flags), and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul J. Gaffney
  • Patent number: 10721282
    Abstract: Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the network, which results in a poor display quality. A process running on a host computer detects an existing multimedia acceleration channel to a thin client and also identifies unaccelerated media streams like Adobe Flash. The unaccelerated content is automatically re-encoded using a codec format supported by the thin client acceleration channel. This results in a significant improvement in the quality of the streaming media displayed on the thin client and overall reductions in host CPU load, network bandwidth and thin client CPU load. No additional software is required on the thin clients to support new media types including Adobe Flash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, Steve Baron, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Publication number: 20190058671
    Abstract: A business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand, and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost. Conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user. Such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and/or disgruntled users. Costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user, or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user. Configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators (misprovisioning flags), and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul J. Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20180351877
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Patent number: 10110512
    Abstract: A business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand, and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost. Conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user. Such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and/or disgruntled users. Costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user, or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user. Configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators (misprovisioning flags), and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul J. Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20180262546
    Abstract: Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the network, which results in a poor display quality. A process running on a host computer detects an existing multimedia acceleration channel to a thin client and also identifies unaccelerated media streams like Adobe Flash. The unaccelerated content is automatically re-encoded using a codec format supported by the thin client acceleration channel. This results in a significant improvement in the quality of the streaming media displayed on the thin client and overall reductions in host CPU load, network bandwidth and thin client CPU load. No additional software is required on the thin clients to support new media types including Adobe Flash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, Steve Baron, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Patent number: 10057189
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Patent number: 9973557
    Abstract: Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the network, which results in a poor display quality. A process running on a host computer detects an existing multimedia acceleration channel to a thin client and also identifies unaccelerated media streams like Adobe Flash. The unaccelerated content is automatically re-encoded using a codec format supported by the thin client acceleration channel. This results in a significant improvement in the quality of the streaming media displayed on the thin client and overall reductions in host CPU load, network bandwidth and thin client CPU load. No additional software is required on the thin clients to support new media types including Adobe Flash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, Steve Baron, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Publication number: 20170111291
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Patent number: 9531638
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Publication number: 20160337420
    Abstract: Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the network, which results in a poor display quality. A process running on a host computer detects an existing multimedia acceleration channel to a thin client and also identifies unaccelerated media streams like Adobe Flash. The unaccelerated content is automatically re-encoded using a codec format supported by the thin client acceleration channel. This results in a significant improvement in the quality of the streaming media displayed on the thin client and overall reductions in host CPU load, network bandwidth and thin client CPU load. No additional software is required on the thin clients to support new media types including Adobe Flash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, Steve Baron, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Patent number: 9407613
    Abstract: Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the network, which results in a poor display quality. A process running on a host computer detects an existing multimedia acceleration channel to a thin client and also identifies unaccelerated media streams like Adobe Flash. The unaccelerated content is automatically re-encoded using a codec format supported by the thin client acceleration channel. This results in a significant improvement in the quality of the streaming media displayed on the thin client and overall reductions in host CPU load, network bandwidth and thin client CPU load. No additional software is required on the thin clients to support new media types including Adobe Flash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Hobgood, Steve Baron, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Patent number: 9237147
    Abstract: A remote access manager in a virtual computing services environment negotiates a time limited NAT routing rule to establish a connection between a remote device and virtual desktop resource providing user computing services. A series of NAT connection rules are revised in a dynamic manner such that a pool of ports is available to connect a plurality of remote users to local virtual compute resources over one or more public IP addresses. Once a connection is established, an entry is made in a firewall state table such that the firewall state table allows uninterrupted use of the established connection. After an entry has been made in the state table, or the routing rule has timed out, the port associated with the original NAT routing rule is removed and the same port can be re-used to establish another connection without disrupting active connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: James Snow, Andrew W. Hobgood, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Publication number: 20150264027
    Abstract: A remote access manager in a virtual computing services environment negotiates a time limited NAT routing rule to establish a connection between a remote device and virtual desktop resource providing user computing services. A series of NAT connection rules are revised in a dynamic manner such that a pool of ports is available to connect a plurality of remote users to local virtual compute resources over one or more public IP addresses. Once a connection is established, an entry is made in a firewall state table such that the firewall state table allows uninterrupted use of the established connection. After an entry has been made in the state table, or the routing rule has timed out, the port associated with the original NAT routing rule is removed and the same port can be re-used to establish another connection without disrupting active connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: James Snow, Andrew W. Hobgood, Clinton B. Battersby
  • Patent number: 8959338
    Abstract: A remote access manager in a virtual computing services environment negotiates a time limited NAT routing rule to establish a connection between a remote device and virtual desktop resource providing user computing services. A series of NAT connection rules are revised in a dynamic manner such that a pool of ports is available to connect a plurality of remote users to local virtual compute resources over one or more public IP addresses. Once a connection is established, an entry is made in a firewall state table such that the firewall state table allows uninterrupted use of the established connection. After an entry has been made in the state table, or the routing rule has timed out, the port associated with the original NAT routing rule is removed and the same port can be re-used to establish another connection without disrupting active connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Desktone, Inc.
    Inventors: James Snow, Andrew W. Hobgood, Clinton B. Battersby