Patents by Inventor Luca Poddigue

Luca Poddigue 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).

  • Power saving through automated power scheduling of virtual machines
    Patent number: 10817046
    Abstract: A plurality of virtual machines executing on physical machines may be monitored, and performance data characterizing consumption of physical resources of the physical machines by the plurality of virtual machines during the observation time may be extracted. Each of the plurality of virtual machines may be classified as active or idle during each time division of a plurality of time divisions of the observation time, based on the performance data and on idleness criteria, to thereby generate an active-idle series for each of the plurality of virtual machines. For each active-idle series of each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines, at least one periodicity of recurring idle times within the observation time may be determined. Then, for each virtual machine with the at least one periodicity, an on-off schedule may be determined, and each of the virtual machines may be transitioned with the at least one periodicity between an on state and an off state in accordance with the on-off schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Visconti, Kanika Dhyani, Jeyashree Sivasubramanian, Marco Bertoli, Luca Poddigue
  • POWER MANAGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES
    Publication number: 20200209946
    Abstract: A plurality of virtual machines executing on physical machines may be monitored, and performance data characterizing consumption of physical resources of the physical machines by the plurality of virtual machines during the observation time may be extracted. Each of the plurality of virtual machines may be classified as active or idle during each time division of a plurality of time divisions of the observation time, based on the performance data and on idleness criteria, to thereby generate an active-idle series for each of the plurality of virtual machines. For each active-idle series of each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines, at least one periodicity of recurring idle times within the observation time may be determined. Then, for each virtual machine with the at least one periodicity, an on-off schedule may be determined, and each of the virtual machines may be transitioned with the at least one periodicity between an on state and an off state in accordance with the on-off schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Stefano Visconti, Kanika Dhyani, Jeyashree Sivasubramanian, Marco Bertoli, Luca Poddigue