Patents by Inventor Arild Skjolsvold

Arild Skjolsvold 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).

  • Patent number: 11700300
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system. Resource reassignment message are generated for indicating that servers are reassigned and in response to resource compute loads exceed or fall below certain thresholds. Techniques also include establishing communications with the reassigned servers to assign compute loads without physically relocating the servers from one cluster to another cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Maneesh Sah, Rushi Surla, Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Jegan Devaraju
  • Patent number: 11586594
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods of replicating versioned and hierarchical data structures, as well as data structures representing complex transactions. Due to interdependencies between data entities and a lack of guaranteed message ordering, simple replication methods employed for simple data types cannot be used. Operations on data structures exhibit dependencies between the messages making up the operations. This strategy can be extended to various types of complex transactions by considering certain messages to depend on other messages or on the existence of other entries at the data store. Regardless of origin, these dependencies can be enforced by suspending the processing of messages with unsatisfied dependencies until all of its dependencies have been met. Alternately, transactions can be committed immediately, creating entities that include versioned identifiers for each of their dependencies. These entities can then be garbage collected of the parent objects are not subsequently created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Niranjan Nilakantan, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju, Ju Wang, Hemal Khatri, Arild Skjolsvold, Harshawardhan Gadgil
  • Publication number: 20220272242
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system. Resource reassignment message are generated for indicating that servers are reassigned and in response to resource compute loads exceed or fall below certain thresholds. Techniques also include establishing communications with the reassigned servers to assign compute loads without physically relocating the servers from one cluster to another cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Maneesh Sah, Rushi Surla, Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Jegan Devaraju
  • Patent number: 11297130
    Abstract: Techniques for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, via a computer network, a resource reassignment message indicating that a server is reassigned from a first cluster to a second cluster and in response to the received resource reassignment message, establishing communications with the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster via the computer network. The method further includes subsequent to establishing communications with the server via the computer network, assigning a compute load to the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster without physically relocating the server from the first cluster to the second cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Maneesh Sah, Rushi Surla, Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Jegan Devaraju
  • Publication number: 20200186599
    Abstract: Techniques for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, via a computer network, a resource reassignment message indicating that a server is reassigned from a first cluster to a second cluster and in response to the received resource reassignment message, establishing communications with the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster via the computer network. The method further includes subsequent to establishing communications with the server via the computer network, assigning a compute load to the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster without physically relocating the server from the first cluster to the second cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Maneesh Sah, Rushi Surla, Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Jegan Devaraju
  • Publication number: 20200167320
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods of replicating versioned and hierarchical data structures, as well as data structures representing complex transactions. Due to interdependencies between data entities and a lack of guaranteed message ordering, simple replication methods employed for simple data types cannot be used. Operations on data structures exhibit dependencies between the messages making up the operations. This strategy can be extended to various types of complex transactions by considering certain messages to depend on other messages or on the existence of other entries at the data store. Regardless of origin, these dependencies can be enforced by suspending the processing of messages with unsatisfied dependencies until all of its dependencies have been met. Alternately, transactions can be committed immediately, creating entities that include versioned identifiers for each of their dependencies. These entities can then be garbage collected of the parent objects are not subsequently created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley Gene CALDER, Niranjan NILAKANTAN, Shashwat SRIVASTAV, Jiesheng WU, Abdul Rafay ABBASI, Shane MAINALI, Padmanabha Chakravarthy UDDARAJU, Ju WANG, Hemal KHATRI, Arild SKJOLSVOLD, Harshawardhan GADGIL
  • Patent number: 10609130
    Abstract: Techniques for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, via a computer network, a resource reassignment message indicating that a server is reassigned from a first cluster to a second cluster and in response to the received resource reassignment message, establishing communications with the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster via the computer network. The method further includes subsequent to establishing communications with the server via the computer network, assigning a compute load to the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster without physically relocating the server from the first cluster to the second cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Maneesh Sah, Rushi Surla, Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Jegan Devaraju
  • Patent number: 10242026
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods of replicating versioned and hierarchical data structures, as well as data structures representing complex transactions. Due to interdependencies between data entities and a lack of guaranteed message ordering, simple replication methods employed for simple data types cannot be used. Operations on data structures exhibit dependencies between the messages making up the operations. This strategy can be extended to various types of complex transactions by considering certain messages to depend on other messages or on the existence of other entries at the data store. Regardless of origin, these dependencies can be enforced by suspending the processing of messages with unsatisfied dependencies until all of its dependencies have been met. Alternately, transactions can be committed immediately, creating entities that include versioned identifiers for each of their dependencies. These entities can then be garbage collected of the parent objects are not subsequently created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Niranjan Nilakantan, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju, Ju Wang, Hemal Khatri, Arild Skjolsvold, Harshawardhan Gadgil
  • Publication number: 20180316749
    Abstract: Techniques for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, via a computer network, a resource reassignment message indicating that a server is reassigned from a first cluster to a second cluster and in response to the received resource reassignment message, establishing communications with the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster via the computer network. The method further includes subsequent to establishing communications with the server via the computer network, assigning a compute load to the server reassigned from the first cluster to the second cluster without physically relocating the server from the first cluster to the second cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Maneesh Sah, Rushi Surla, Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Jegan Devaraju
  • Patent number: 9749208
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for integrated resource allocation and loading balancing are provided. A global resource allocator receives usage information of resources in a cloud computing system. The usage information is associated with a plurality of accounts and consumer operations pairs on servers of the cloud computing system. For selected account and consumer operation pairs associated with a particular resource, allocation targets are determined and communicated to the corresponding server of the selected account and consumer operation pairs. The servers use the resource based on the allocation targets. A load balancer receives the usage information the resource and the allocation targets. The allocation targets indicate a load by the selected account and consumer operation pairs on their corresponding servers. The load balancer performs a load balancing operation to locate a server with a capacity to process the allocated target of the selected account and consumer operation pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arild Skjolsvold, Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang
  • Patent number: 9513806
    Abstract: One method includes receiving partitions, generating assignment plans for assignment of the partitions to servers based on dimensional values of dimensions as determined by different assignment heuristics, selecting one of the assignment plans for execution based on analyzing the dimensional values in accordance with the assignment plans, and executing the selected assignment plan on scalable storage. Another method includes determining, for a triggered optimization module that a server is over utilized on a dimension, selecting candidate operations for partitions assigned to the server, for a higher priority optimization module than the triggered optimization module, removing a candidate operation from the candidate operations that would diminish a modeled state of scalable storage, determining an operation of the candidate operations that would improve the modeled state of the scalable storage with respect to a metric of the dimension on the server, and executing the operation on the scalable storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Arild Skjolsvold, Xinhua Ji, Ju Wang, Bradley Gene Calder, Ralph Burton Harris, III, Hosung Song
  • Patent number: 9286001
    Abstract: A method for load balancing includes determining a reference key within a partition key range of a partition of scalable storage, the partition key range being divided into buckets that have boundaries defining sub ranges of the partition key range. The reference key is determined based on traffic values that correspond to tracked traffic within the buckets. The traffic values are updated based on additional traffic within the buckets and the boundaries are adjusted based on the updated traffic values. A reference key speed is determined that corresponds to a rate of change of a distribution of the tracked traffic with respect to the reference key. Reference key drop-off time may be determined for reference keys. Reference keys can be utilized to determine where to split the partition and reference key speed and reference key drop-off time can be utilized to determine whether or not to split the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT LICENSING TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Arild Skjolsvold, Ju Wang, Bradley Gene Calder
  • Publication number: 20160070720
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods of replicating versioned and hierarchical data structures, as well as data structures representing complex transactions. Due to interdependencies between data entities and a lack of guaranteed message ordering, simple replication methods employed for simple data types cannot be used. Operations on data structures exhibit dependencies between the messages making up the operations. This strategy can be extended to various types of complex transactions by considering certain messages to depend on other messages or on the existence of other entries at the data store. Regardless of origin, these dependencies can be enforced by suspending the processing of messages with unsatisfied dependencies until all of its dependencies have been met. Alternately, transactions can be committed immediately, creating entities that include versioned identifiers for each of their dependencies. These entities can then be garbage collected of the parent objects are not subsequently created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: BRADLEY GENE CALDER, NIRANJAN NILAKANTAN, SHASHWAT SRIVASTAV, JIESHENG WU, ABDUL RAFAY ABBASI, SHANE MAINALI, PADMANABHA CHAKRAVARTHY UDDARAJU, JU WANG, HEMAL KHATRI, ARILD SKJOLSVOLD, HARSHAWARDHAN GADGIL
  • Publication number: 20150378635
    Abstract: A method for load balancing includes determining a reference key within a partition key range of a partition of scalable storage, the partition key range being divided into buckets that have boundaries defining sub ranges of the partition key range. The reference key is determined based on traffic values that correspond to tracked traffic within the buckets. The traffic values are updated based on additional traffic within the buckets and the boundaries are adjusted based on the updated traffic values. A reference key speed is determined that corresponds to a rate of change of a distribution of the tracked traffic with respect to the reference key. Reference key drop-off time may be determined for reference keys. Reference keys can be utilized to determine where to split the partition and reference key speed and reference key drop-off time can be utilized to determine whether or not to split the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: ARILD SKJOLSVOLD, JU WANG, BRADLEY GENE CALDER
  • Publication number: 20150381453
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for integrated resource allocation and loading balancing are provided. A global resource allocator receives usage information of resources in a cloud computing system. The usage information is associated with a plurality of accounts and consumer operations pairs on servers of the cloud computing system. For selected account and consumer operation pairs associated with a particular resource, allocation targets are determined and communicated to the corresponding server of the selected account and consumer operation pairs. The servers use the resource based on the allocation targets. A load balancer receives the usage information the resource and the allocation targets. The allocation targets indicate a load by the selected account and consumer operation pairs on their corresponding servers. The load balancer performs a load balancing operation to locate a server with a capacity to process the allocated target of the selected account and consumer operation pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: ARILD SKJOLSVOLD, BRADLEY GENE CALDER, JU WANG
  • Publication number: 20150319230
    Abstract: One method includes receiving partitions, generating assignment plans for assignment of the partitions to servers based on dimensional values of dimensions as determined by different assignment heuristics, selecting one of the assignment plans for execution based on analyzing the dimensional values in accordance with the assignment plans, and executing the selected assignment plan on scalable storage. Another method includes determining, for a triggered optimization module that a server is over utilized on a dimension, selecting candidate operations for partitions assigned to the server, for a higher priority optimization module than the triggered optimization module, removing a candidate operation from the candidate operations that would diminish a modeled state of scalable storage, determining an operation of the candidate operations that would improve the modeled state of the scalable storage with respect to a metric of the dimension on the server, and executing the operation on the scalable storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: ARILD SKJOLSVOLD, XINHUA JI, JU WANG, BRADLEY GENE CALDER, RALPH BURTON HARRIS, III, HOSUNG SONG
  • Patent number: 9098470
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods of replicating versioned and hierarchical data structures, as well as data structures representing complex transactions. Due to interdependencies between data entities and a lack of guaranteed message ordering, simple replication methods employed for simple data types cannot be used. Operations on data structures exhibit dependencies between the messages making up the operations. This strategy can be extended to various types of complex transactions by considering certain messages to depend on other messages or on the existence of other entries at the data store. Regardless of origin, these dependencies can be enforced by suspending the processing of messages with unsatisfied dependencies until all of its dependencies have been met. Alternately, transactions can be committed immediately, creating entities that include versioned identifiers for each of their dependencies. These entities can then be garbage collected of the parent objects are not subsequently created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Niranjan Nilakantan, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju, Ju Wang, Hemal Khatri, Arild Skjolsvold, Harshawardhan Gadgil
  • Publication number: 20120303578
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods of replicating versioned and hierarchical data structures, as well as data structures representing complex transactions. Due to interdependencies between data entities and a lack of guaranteed message ordering, simple replication methods employed for simple data types cannot be used. Operations on data structures exhibit dependencies between the messages making up the operations. This strategy can be extended to various types of complex transactions by considering certain messages to depend on other messages or on the existence of other entries at the data store. Regardless of origin, these dependencies can be enforced by suspending the processing of messages with unsatisfied dependencies until all of its dependencies have been met. Alternately, transactions can be committed immediately, creating entities that include versioned identifiers for each of their dependencies. These entities can then be garbage collected of the parent objects are not subsequently created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Niranjan Nilakantan, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju, Ju Wang, Hemal Khatri, Arild Skjolsvold, Harshawardhan Gadgil