Patents by Inventor Pat Munns

Pat Munns 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).

  • Automatic load balancing, such as for hosted applications
    Patent number: 9081624
    Abstract: A dynamic load balancing system is described that determines the load of resources in a hosted environment dynamically by monitoring the usage of resources by each customer and determines the number of customers hosted by a server based on the actual resources used. The system receives a performance threshold that indicates when a server is too heavily loaded and monitors the resource usage by each customer. When the load of an overloaded server in the hosted environment exceeds the received performance threshold, the system selects a source customer currently hosted by the overloaded server to move to another server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Liu, Michael Ott, Nirav Shah, Matthew Cooper, Ramesh Bangalore, Pat Munns
  • AUTOMATIC LOAD BALANCING, SUCH AS FOR HOSTED APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20090328050
    Abstract: A dynamic load balancing system is described that determines the load of resources in a hosted environment dynamically by monitoring the usage of resources by each customer and determines the number of customers hosted by a server based on the actual resources used. The system receives a performance threshold that indicates when a server is too heavily loaded and monitors the resource usage by each customer. When the load of an overloaded server in the hosted environment exceeds the received performance threshold, the system selects a source customer currently hosted by the overloaded server to move to another server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Liu, Michael Ott, Nirav Shah, Matthew Cooper, Ramesh Bangalore, Pat Munns