Patents by Inventor Elden Christensen

Elden Christensen 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).

  • Optimal storage and workload placement, and high resiliency, in geo-distributed cluster systems
    Patent number: 10656868
    Abstract: Technologies for cluster systems that are natively geo-site-aware. Such a cluster system makes use of this awareness to determine the subsets of nodes located at various geo-sites at physical configuration, to optimize workload placement based on the geo-sites, to make failover and failback decisions based on the geo-sites, and to assign voting and prune nodes for quorum management based on the geo-sites. Such capabilities result in cluster systems that are more resilient and more efficient in terms of resource usage than cluster systems without such native geo-site awareness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu, David Allen Dion, Abhinit Kumar, Suresh Chandra Pippari, Amitabh Tamhane, Elden Christensen
  • Optimal storage and workload placement, and high resiliency, in geo-distributed cluster systems
    Patent number: 10437506
    Abstract: Technologies for cluster systems that are natively geo-site-aware. Such a cluster system makes use of this awareness to determine the subsets of nodes located at various geo-sites at physical configuration, to optimize workload placement based on the geo-sites, to make failover and failback decisions based on the geo-sites, and to assign voting and prune nodes for quorum management based on the geo-sites. Such capabilities result in cluster systems that are more resilient and more efficient in terms of resource usage than cluster systems without such native geo-site awareness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu, David Allen Dion, Abhinit Kumar, Suresh Chandra Pippari, Amitabh Tamhane, Elden Christensen
  • OPTIMAL STORAGE AND WORKLOAD PLACEMENT, AND HIGH RESILIENCY, IN GEO-DISTRIBUTED CLUSTER SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20180239536
    Abstract: Technologies for cluster systems that are natively geo-site-aware. Such a cluster system makes use of this awareness to determine the subsets of nodes located at various geo-sites at physical configuration, to optimize workload placement based on the geo-sites, to make failover and failback decisions based on the geo-sites, and to assign voting and prune nodes for quorum management based on the geo-sites. Such capabilities result in cluster systems that are more resilient and more efficient in terms of resource usage than cluster systems without such native geo-site awareness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu, David Allen Dion, Abhinit Kumar, Suresh Chandra Pippari, Amitabh Tamhane, Elden Christensen
  • OPTIMAL STORAGE AND WORKLOAD PLACEMENT, AND ENSURING HIGH RESILIENCY IN GEO-DISTRIBUTED CLUSTER SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20170052707
    Abstract: Technologies for cluster systems that are natively geo-site-aware. Such a cluster system makes use of this awareness to determine the subsets of nodes located at various geo-sites at physical configuration, to optimize workload placement based on the geo-sites, to make failover and failback decisions based on the geo-sites, and to assign voting and prune nodes for quorum management based on the geo-sites. Such capabilities result in cluster systems that are more resilient and more efficient in terms of resource usage than cluster systems without such native geo-site awareness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu, David Allen Dion, Abhinit Kumar, Suresh Chandra Pippari, Amitabh Tamhane, Elden Christensen