Patents by Inventor Hanno Hlidmann

Hanno Hlidmann 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).

  • Method and system for determining allocation of clients to servers
    Patent number: 9285859
    Abstract: This invention relates to assignment of mobile clients (such as mobile telephones or software agents) to mainly stationary servers (such as mobile network base stations or computer servers) with the objective of reducing or minimizing the number of active servers. Once the number of users of a server drops below a specified level, the server may be deactivated resulting in power and efficiency savings. Preferably the method of the invention operates dynamically and during run time. In certain embodiments, the method can accept trade-offs in the quality of service or the number of active servers. In an embodiment of the invention, servers are arranged to “compete” with adjacent servers for their clients. This competition may be in a self-amplifying manner such that with the effect that more “popular” servers are more likely to succeed thus resulting in servers which are below a utilization threshold and can therefore be switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research British Telecommunications PLC, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
    Inventors: Fabrice Saffre, Hanno Hlidmann, Sébastien Matthieu René Nicolas
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALLOCATION OF CLIENTS TO SERVERS
    Publication number: 20130173802
    Abstract: This invention relates to assignment of mobile clients (such as mobile telephones or software agents) to mainly stationary servers (such as mobile network base stations or computer servers) with the objective of reducing or minimizing the number of active servers. Once the number of users of a server drops below a specified level, the server may be deactivated resulting in power and efficiency savings. Preferably the method of the invention operates dynamically and during run time. In certain embodiments, the method can accept trade-offs in the quality of service or the number of active servers. In an embodiment of the invention, servers are arranged to “compete” with adjacent servers for their clients. This competition may be in a self-amplifying manner such that with the effect that more “popular” servers are more likely to succeed thus resulting in servers which are below a utilization threshold and can therefore be switched off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicants: Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, British Telecommunications plc
    Inventors: Fabrice Saffre, Hanno Hlidmann, Sébastien Matthieu René Nicolas