Patents by Inventor Kannan Vijayan

Kannan Vijayan 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).

  • Managing memory across a network of cloned virtual machines
    Patent number: 8601201
    Abstract: A method and system manages memory in a network of virtual machines, including a copy of a master virtual machine (VM) memory system, the copy accessible to a memory server. The method includes determining whether a memory page requested by a clone VM memory system is fetchable from the memory server, the clone VM memory system hosted in a host memory system; if the memory page is fetchable from the memory server, fetching the memory page from the memory server; determining whether there is sufficient space in the host memory system to load the memory page; if there is insufficient space in the host memory system, evicting a selected memory page from the host memory system; and loading the memory page into the host memory system and the clone VM memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Gridcentric Inc.
    Inventors: Adin Scannell, Timothy Smith, Vivek Lakshmanan, David Scannell, Kannan Vijayan, Jing Su
  • Managing Memory Across a Network of Cloned Virtual Machines
    Publication number: 20120117298
    Abstract: A method and system manages memory in a network of virtual machines, including a copy of a master virtual machine (VM) memory system, the copy accessible to a memory server. The method includes determining whether a memory page requested by a clone VM memory system is fetchable from the memory server, the clone VM memory system hosted in a host memory system; if the memory page is fetchable from the memory server, fetching the memory page from the memory server; determining whether there is sufficient space in the host memory system to load the memory page; if there is insufficient space in the host memory system, evicting a selected memory page from the host memory system; and loading the memory page into the host memory system and the clone VM memory system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: GridCentic Inc.
    Inventors: Adin Scannell, Timothy Smith, Vivek Lakshmanan, David Scannell, Kannan Vijayan, Jing Su