Patents by Inventor Michael Robert Stunes

Michael Robert Stunes 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).

  • Preserving large pages of memory across live migrations of workloads
    Patent number: 11762573
    Abstract: A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Arunachalam Ramanathan, Yury Baskakov, Anurekh Saxena, Ying Yu, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Michael Robert Stunes
  • PRESERVING LARGE PAGES OF MEMORY ACROSS LIVE MIGRATIONS OF WORKLOADS
    Publication number: 20230082951
    Abstract: A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Arunachalam RAMANATHAN, Yury BASKAKOV, Anurekh SAXENA, Ying YU, Rajesh VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Michael Robert STUNES
  • PRESERVING LARGE PAGES OF MEMORY ACROSS LIVE MIGRATIONS OF WORKLOADS
    Publication number: 20230028047
    Abstract: A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Arunachalam RAMANATHAN, Yury BASKAKOV, Anurekh SAXENA, Ying YU, Rajesh VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Michael Robert STUNES
  • Preserving large pages of memory across live migrations of workloads
    Patent number: 11543988
    Abstract: A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Arunachalam Ramanathan, Yury Baskakov, Anurekh Saxena, Ying Yu, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Michael Robert Stunes