Patents by Inventor Christopher Paul Almida

Christopher Paul Almida 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).

  • Service migration across cluster boundaries
    Patent number: 10116735
    Abstract: Embodiments provide migration of services across different clusters to balance utilization and meet customer demands. Different service migration options may be performed with or without downtime. The artifacts of the service are moved to a new destination cluster. The service is created on the new destination cluster and staged so that the service is almost ready to start. In one embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster. After stopping the service, DNS is updated to point to the service on the new cluster. In another embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster with the same IP address to avoid DNS reprogramming and associated delays. In a further embodiment, the migration is performed without downtime by moving the service part by part from one cluster to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sushant Pramod Rewaskar, Muhammad Umer Azad, Saad Syed, Christopher Paul Almida, Ajay Mani
  • SERVICE MIGRATION ACROSS CLUSTER BOUNDARIES
    Publication number: 20160294930
    Abstract: Embodiments provide migration of services across different clusters to balance utilization and meet customer demands. Different service migration options may be performed with or without downtime. The artifacts of the service are moved to a new destination cluster. The service is created on the new destination cluster and staged so that the service is almost ready to start. In one embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster. After stopping the service, DNS is updated to point to the service on the new cluster. In another embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster with the same IP address to avoid DNS reprogramming and associated delays. In a further embodiment, the migration is performed without downtime by moving the service part by part from one cluster to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Sushant Pramod Rewaskar, Muhammad Umer Azad, Saad Syed, Christopher Paul Almida, Ajay Mani
  • Service migration across cluster boundaries
    Patent number: 9338254
    Abstract: Embodiments provide migration of services across different clusters to balance utilization and meet customer demands. Different service migration options may be performed with or without downtime. The artifacts of the service are moved to a new destination cluster. The service is created on the new destination cluster and staged so that the service is almost ready to start. In one embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster. After stopping the service, DNS is updated to point to the service on the new cluster. In another embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster with the same IP address to avoid DNS reprogramming and associated delays. In a further embodiment, the migration is performed without downtime by moving the service part by part from one cluster to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sushant Pramod Rewaskar, Muhammad Umer Azad, Saad Syed, Christopher Paul Almida, Ajay Mani
  • Service Migration across Cluster Boundaries
    Publication number: 20140195687
    Abstract: Embodiments provide migration of services across different clusters to balance utilization and meet customer demands. Different service migration options may be performed with or without downtime. The artifacts of the service are moved to a new destination cluster. The service is created on the new destination cluster and staged so that the service is almost ready to start. In one embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster. After stopping the service, DNS is updated to point to the service on the new cluster. In another embodiment, the service is stopped on the old cluster and started on the new cluster with the same IP address to avoid DNS reprogramming and associated delays. In a further embodiment, the migration is performed without downtime by moving the service part by part from one cluster to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sushant Pramod Rewaskar, Muhammad Umer Azad, Saad Syed, Christopher Paul Almida, Ajay Mani