Patents by Inventor Ananda C. Sankaran

Ananda C. Sankaran 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 to dynamically provision additional computer resources to handle peak database workloads
    Patent number: 8397240
    Abstract: A method to handle peak database workloads may include requesting resources, receiving virtual-machine information in response to the requesting, allocating first and second portions of a workload according to the virtual-machine information, processing the first portion on a virtual machine to generate a first result, creating a cloned virtual machine with a virtualization layer, and cloning with the virtualization layer a storage allocated to the virtual machine to create a cloned storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Kong Yang, Ananda C. Sankaran
  • Method to Dynamically Provision Additional Computer Resources to Handle Peak Database Workloads
    Publication number: 20120198450
    Abstract: A method to handle peak database workloads may include requesting resources, receiving virtual-machine information in response to the requesting, allocating first and second portions of a workload according to the virtual-machine information, processing the first portion on a virtual machine to generate a first result, creating a cloned virtual machine with a virtualization layer, and cloning with the virtualization layer a storage allocated to the virtual machine to create a cloned storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Kong Yang, Ananda C. Sankaran
  • Method to dynamically provision additional computer resources to handle peak database workloads
    Patent number: 8176497
    Abstract: A method to handle peak database workloads is disclosed. In one form of the disclosure, the method can include requesting resources, receiving virtual-machine information in response to requesting, and allocating first and second portions of a workload according to the virtual-machine information. The method can also include processing the first portion on a virtual machine to generate a first result, processing the second portion on a cloned virtual machine to generate a second result, and aggregating the first and the second results to form a response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Kong Yang, Ananda C. Sankaran
  • On-demand provisioning of computer resources in physical/virtual cluster environments
    Patent number: 7814364
    Abstract: A server cluster comprises a physical node and a virtual host node. The physical node includes an active node running an application. The virtual host node includes an inactive virtual node. The virtual node is activated upon failure of the active node and the application is failed over to the virtual node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Ananda C. Sankaran, Sumankumar Singh, Bharath Vasudevan
  • Method to Dynamically Provision Additional Computer Resources to Handle Peak Database Workloads
    Publication number: 20090183152
    Abstract: A method to handle peak database workloads is disclosed. In one form of the disclosure, the method can include requesting resources, receiving virtual-machine information in response to requesting, and allocating first and second portions of a workload according to the virtual-machine information. The method can also include processing the first portion on a virtual machine to generate a first result, processing the second portion on a cloned virtual machine to generate a second result, and aggregating the first and the second results to form a response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Kong Yang, Ananda C. Sankaran
  • On-demand provisioning of computer resources in physical/virtual cluster environments
    Publication number: 20080126834
    Abstract: A server cluster comprises a physical node and a virtual host node. The physical node includes an active node running an application. The virtual host node includes an inactive virtual node. The virtual node is activated upon failure of the active node and the application is failed over to the virtual node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Ananda C. Sankaran, Sumankumar Singh, Bharath Vasudevan