Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Keating Conrad

Jeffrey Keating Conrad 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).

  • Cloud defragmentation
    Patent number: 9207961
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes identifying, in a defragmentation scheduling logic of a first system of a data center, a first virtual machine (VM) of a first server of the data center to select for migration based on a cost determined according to a source algorithm, identifying a second server of the data center to select for receipt of the first VM based on a cost determined according to a destination algorithm, where the second server has available free space to receive the first VM and the available free space has been scrubbed prior to the identification, and migrating a substantial plurality of VMs between servers of the data center based on cost according to the source and destination algorithms, to defragment the data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Rackspace US, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Keating Conrad, Gregory Scott Kirkland
  • Cloud Defragmentation
    Publication number: 20130318526
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes identifying, in a defragmentation scheduling logic of a first system of a data center, a first virtual machine (VM) of a first server of the data center to select for migration based on a cost determined according to a source algorithm, identifying a second server of the data center to select for receipt of the first VM based on a cost determined according to a destination algorithm, where the second server has available free space to receive the first VM and the available free space has been scrubbed prior to the identification, and migrating a substantial plurality of VMs between servers of the data center based on cost according to the source and destination algorithms, to defragment the data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Jeffrey Keating Conrad, Gregory Scott Kirkland