Patents by Inventor Stuart Hacking

Stuart Hacking 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).

  • Leveraging memory similarity during live migrations
    Patent number: 8239609
    Abstract: A page scanner may be configured to identify, during a live migration of a virtual machine including a transfer of a plurality of memory pages from source hardware resources to destination hardware resources, a candidate memory page of the plurality of memory pages to include in the transfer while at least one operation of the virtual machine continues to execute. A fingerprint comparator may be configured to compare a candidate page fingerprint of the candidate memory page to existing page fingerprints of existing memory pages stored using the second hardware resources, and further configured to determine, based on the comparing, that a duplicate of the candidate page is included within the existing memory pages. A duplicate page handler may be configured to facilitate continued execution of the virtual machine using the duplicate of the candidate page and the second hardware resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Benoit Hudzia, Stuart Hacking
  • Leveraging Memory Similarity During Live Migrations
    Publication number: 20110099318
    Abstract: A page scanner may be configured to identify, during a live migration of a virtual machine including a transfer of a plurality of memory pages from source hardware resources to destination hardware resources, a candidate memory page of the plurality of memory pages to include in the transfer while at least one operation of the virtual machine continues to execute. A fingerprint comparator may be configured to compare a candidate page fingerprint of the candidate memory page to existing page fingerprints of existing memory pages stored using the second hardware resources, and further configured to determine, based on the comparing, that a duplicate of the candidate page is included within the existing memory pages. A duplicate page handler may be configured to facilitate continued execution of the virtual machine using the duplicate of the candidate page and the second hardware resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Benoit Hudzia, Stuart Hacking