Patents by Inventor Brian Ofer

Brian Ofer 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).

  • OPTIMIZED PLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20130145368
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing risk of service interruptions for one or more virtual machines (VMs) in a computing environment are provided. The method comprises computing a placement scheme for placing at least one VM on one or more hosts according to a set of placement constraints defined for the VM, wherein the set of placement constraints comprises at least one availability constraint defined for the VM, wherein the availability constraint designates a N resiliency level, wherein N corresponds to number of host failures that may occur before the services provided by the VM are interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ofer, Erez Hadad, Elliot K. Kolodmer, Dean H. Lorenz, Yosef Moatti