Patents by Inventor Robert L. Boyce, Jr.

Robert L. Boyce, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 7685283
    Abstract: The invention comprises a computer-implemented process for managing computing resources provided to customers in an on-demand data center. The process comprises: providing a shared computing environment; providing to each customer one or more logical partitions of computing resources within the shared computing environment; allocating at least one processing engine to each logical partition; modeling a selected customer's resource utilization as a beta distribution; iteratively selecting a random resource utilization value from the beta distribution and, for each logical partition, calculating a processing engine differential; for each iteration, calculating a collective processing engine differential until the collective processing engine differential converges on an optimal processing engine differential; and adjusting the number of processing engines by the optimal processing engine differential to achieve an optimal free pool size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machiens Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Boyce, Jr., Randy S. Johnson, Tedrick N. Northway, Walter F. Schmidt, Clea A. Zolotow