Patents by Inventor Thomas Moscibroda
Thomas Moscibroda 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).
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Publication number: 20220309025Abstract: In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, there provides a solution for multi-path RDMA transmission. In the solution, at least one packet is generated based on an RDMA message to be transmitted from a first device to a second device. The first device has an RDMA connection with the second device via a plurality of paths. A first packet in the at least one packet includes a plurality of fields, which include information for transmitting the first packet over a first path of the plurality of paths. The at least one packet is transmitted to the second device over the plurality of paths via an RDMA protocol. The first packet is transmitted over the first path. The multi-path RDMA transmission solution according to the subject matter described herein can efficiently utilize rich network paths while maintaining a low memory footprint in a network interface card.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Guo Chen, Thomas Moscibroda, Peng Cheng, Yuanwei Lu, Yongqiang Xiong
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Patent number: 11416286Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein can facilitate computing on transient resources. An exemplary computing device may use a task scheduler to access information of a computational task and instability information of a transient resource. Moreover, the task scheduler can schedule the computational task to use the transient resource based at least in part on the rate of data size reduction of the computational task. Further, a checkpointing scheduler in the exemplary computing device can determine a checkpointing plan for the computational task based at least in part on a recomputation cost associated with the instability information of the transient resource. Resultantly, the overall utilization rate of computing resources is improved by effectively utilizing transient resources.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ying Yan, Yanjie Gao, Yang Chen, Thomas Moscibroda, Narayanan Ganapathy, Bole Chen, Zhongxin Guo
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Publication number: 20220245001Abstract: A cloud computing capacity management system can include a fine-grained admission control layer, a policy engine, and an enforcement layer. The fine-grained admission control layer can be configured to ingest capacity signals and create a capacity mitigation policy, based at least in part on the capacity signals, to protect available capacity of a cloud computing system for prioritized users. The capacity mitigation policy can be directed to users of the cloud computing system. The policy engine can be configured to control how the capacity mitigation policy is applied to the cloud computing system. The enforcement layer can be configured to handle incoming resource requests and to enforce resource limits based on the capacity mitigation policy as applied by the policy engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Gurpreet VIRDI, Fernando GONZALEZ TODISCO, Karthikeyan SUBRAMANIAN, Sanjay RAMANUJAN, Sorin IFTIMIE, Xing wen WANG, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Yunus MOHAMMED, Vi Lam NGUYEN, Rostislav SUDAKOV
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Publication number: 20220206979Abstract: According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is proposed a solution for supporting communications for an FPGA device. In an implementation, the FPGA device includes an application module and protocol stack modules. The protocol stack modules are operable to access target devices based on different communication protocols via a physical interface. The FPGA device further includes a universal access module operable to receive, from the application module, first data and a first identity of a first target device, the first target device acting as a destination of the first data, and transmit, based on the first identity and predetermined first routing information, the first data to a first protocol stack module accessible to the first target device via the physical interface. By introducing the universal access module, it is possible to provide unified and direct communications for the application module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Peng CHENG, Ran SHU, Guo CHEN, Yongqiang XIONG, Jiansong ZHANG, Ningyi XU, Thomas MOSCIBRODA
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Patent number: 11308024Abstract: In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, there provides a solution for multi-path RDMA transmission. In the solution, at least one packet is generated based on an RDMA message to be transmitted from a first device to a second device. The first device has an RDMA connection with the second device via a plurality of paths. A first packet in the at least one packet includes a plurality of fields, which include information for transmitting the first packet over a first path of the plurality of paths. The at least one packet is transmitted to the second device over the plurality of paths via an RDMA protocol. The first packet is transmitted over the first path. The multi-path RDMA transmission solution according to the subject matter described herein can efficiently utilize rich network paths while maintaining a low memory footprint in a network interface card.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Guo Chen, Thomas Moscibroda, Peng Cheng, Yuanwei Lu, Yongqiang Xiong
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Publication number: 20220075900Abstract: In implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for controlling and tracing an object across a plurality of parties is proposed. A rule set may be enabled by the confirmation of a plurality of parties. The rule set may define constraints on operations related to the object. Upon receipt of a request for an operation related to the object, the requested operation may be verified based on the rule set agreed by the plurality of parties. In response to verifying that requested operation is valid, the requested operation may be performed, and a record for the operation may be created and stored in a blockchain database accessible to the plurality of parties.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ying YAN, Yang CHEN, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Eric CHANG, Jinglei REN, Liang CHEN, Yanjie GAO
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Publication number: 20220075641Abstract: Systems and methods are taught for providing customers of a cloud computing service to control when updates affect the services provided to the customers. Because multiple customers share the cloud's infrastructure, each customer may have conflicting preferences for when an update and associated downtime occurs. Preventing and resolving conflicts between the preferences of multiple customers while providing them with input for scheduling a planned update may reduce the inconvenience posed by updates. Additionally, the schedule for the update may be transmitted to customers so that they can prepare for the downtime of services associated with the update.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jiaxing ZHANG, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Haoran WANG, Jurgen Aubrey WILLIS, Yang CHEN, Ying YAN, James E. Johnson, Ajay MANI
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Patent number: 11243901Abstract: According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is proposed a solution for supporting communications for an FPGA device. In an implementation, the FPGA device includes an application module and protocol stack modules. The protocol stack modules are operable to access target devices based on different communication protocols via a physical interface. The FPGA device further includes a universal access module operable to receive, from the application module, first data and a first identity of a first target device, the first target device acting as a destination of the first data, and transmit, based on the first identity and predetermined first routing information, the first data to a first protocol stack module accessible to the first target device via the physical interface. By introducing the universal access module, it is possible to provide unified and direct communications for the application module.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Peng Cheng, Ran Shu, Guo Chen, Yongqiang Xiong, Jiansong Zhang, Ningyi Xu, Thomas Moscibroda
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Patent number: 11218457Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to blockchain and other security technology. In one example of the technology, a first node is endorsed. During endorsement of a first node, a pre-determined type of blockchain or other security protocol code to be authorized and a pre-determined membership list are stored in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the first node. A determination is made as to whether the membership lists and pre-determined blockchain or other security protocol code to be authorized from the proposed members match. If so, TEE attestation is used to verify that nodes associated with prospective members of the consortium store the pre-determined type of blockchain or other security protocol code to be authorized. Upon TEE attestation being successful, a consortium network is bootstrapped such that the prospective members become members of the consortium network.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mark Russinovich, Manuel Costa, Matthew Kerner, Thomas Moscibroda
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Patent number: 11210426Abstract: In implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for controlling and tracing an object across a plurality of parties is proposed. A rule set may be enabled by the confirmation of a plurality of parties. The rule set may define constraints on operations related to the object. Upon receipt of a request for an operation related to the object, the requested operation may be verified based on the rule set agreed by the plurality of parties. In response to verifying that requested operation is valid, the requested operation may be performed, and a record for the operation may be created and stored in a blockchain database accessible to the plurality of parties.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ying Yan, Yang Chen, Thomas Moscibroda, Eric Chang, Jinglei Ren, Liang Chen, Yanjie Gao
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Publication number: 20210389894Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for predicting expansion failures and implementing defragmentation instructions based on the predicted expansion failures and other signals. For example, systems disclosed herein may apply a failure prediction model to determine an expansion failure prediction associated with an estimated likelihood that deployment failures will occur on a node cluster. The systems disclosed herein may further generate defragmentation instructions indicating a severity level that a defragmentation engine may execute on a cluster level to prevent expansion failures while minimizing negative customer impacts. By uniquely generating defragmentation instructions for each node cluster, a cloud computing system can minimize expansion failures, increase resource capacity, reduce costs, and provide access to reliable services to customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Shandan ZHOU, Saurabh AGARWAL, Karthikeyan SUBRAMANIAN, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Paul Naveen SELVARAJ, Sandeep RAMJI, Sorin IFTIMIE, Nisarg SHETH, Wanghai GU, Ajay MANI, Si QIN, Yong XU, Qingwei LIN
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Patent number: 11175943Abstract: Systems and methods are taught for providing customers of a cloud computing service to control when updates affect the services provided to the customers. Because multiple customers share the cloud's infrastructure, each customer may have conflicting preferences for when an update and associated downtime occurs. Preventing and resolving conflicts between the preferences of multiple customers while providing them with input for scheduling a planned update may reduce the inconvenience posed by updates. Additionally, the schedule for the update may be transmitted to customers so that they can prepare for the downtime of services associated with the update.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jiaxing Zhang, Thomas Moscibroda, Haoran Wang, Jurgen Aubrey Willis, Yang Chen, Ying Yan, James E. Johnson, Ajay Mani
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Patent number: 11085772Abstract: In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for generating indoor navigation is proposed. Generally speaking, a reference signal that includes time series data collected by at least one environment sensor along a reference path from a start point to a destination is obtained. For example, the reference signal may be obtained by environment sensors equipped in a user's mobile device or another movable entity. Then, a movement event by identifying a pattern from the reference signal, the pattern describing measurements of the at least one environment sensor associated with a specific movement is extracted. Next, a navigation instruction is generated to indicate that the movement event occurs during a movement of the at least one environment sensor along the reference path. Further, the navigation instruction may be provided to a person for indoor navigation.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Yuanchao Shu, Börje Felipe Fernandes Karlsson, Thomas Moscibroda, Yundie Zhang, Zhuqi Li
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Publication number: 20210216355Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media that utilize a low-impact live-migration system to reduce unfavorable impacts caused as a result of live-migrating computing containers between physical server devices of a cloud computing system. For example, systems disclosed herein evaluates characteristics of computing containers on server devices to determine a predicted unfavorable impact of live-migrating the computing containers between the server devices. Based on the predicted impact, the systems disclosed herein can selectively identify which computing containers to live-migrate as well as carry out live-migration of the select computing containers in such a way the significantly reduces unfavorable impacts to a customer or client device associated with the computing containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Eli CORTEZ, Ajay MANI, Marcus Felipe FONTOURA, Nisarg Tarakkumar SHETH, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Ana-Maria CONSTANTIN
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Patent number: 11042497Abstract: The implementations of the subject matter described herein relate to communication between field programmable gate arrays. In some implementations, an FPGA device comprises a first protocol stack configured to: receive, from a source application, a data transmitting request for a destination application; package the data transmitting request into a first packet by adding a header to the data transmitting request, the header indicating the source application and the destination application; and transmit a physical address of a second protocol stack connected with the destination application. The FPGA device further comprises a PCIe interface configured to: package the first packet into a second packet based on the physical address of the second protocol stack received from the first protocol stack so that the first packet serves as a data portion of the second packet, the second packet being a TLP conforming to the PCIe standard; and transmit the second packet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Peng Cheng, Ran Shu, Guo Chen, Yongqiang Xiong, Jiansong Zhang, Ningyi Xu, Thomas Moscibroda
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Publication number: 20210182433Abstract: In implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for controlling and tracing an object across a plurality of parties is proposed. A rule set may be enabled by the confirmation of a plurality of parties. The rule set may define constraints on operations related to the object. Upon receipt of a request for an operation related to the object, the requested operation may be verified based on the rule set agreed by the plurality of parties. In response to verifying that requested operation is valid, the requested operation may be performed, and a record for the operation may be created and stored in a blockchain database accessible to the plurality of parties.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Ying YAN, Yang CHEN, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Eric CHANG, Jinglei REN, Liang CHEN, Yanjie GAO
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Patent number: 11032359Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for optimizing allocation of multi-priority service instances are provided. In embodiments, a quality metric associated with each candidate node to which a service instance could be allocated is determined. An eviction cost or a survival metric associated with at least a portion of the candidate nodes to which the service instance could be allocated are determined. The eviction costs generally indicate a cost to evict a service instance from a corresponding node such that another service instance can be allocated to that node. At least a portion of the quality metrics and either the eviction costs or the survival metrics are used to select a node from the candidate nodes to which to allocate the service instance.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Inventors: Thomas Moscibroda, Yang Chen, James E. Johnson, Ajay Mani, Mark Eugene Russinovich
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Publication number: 20210125580Abstract: Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relate to a wireless programmable media processing system. In the media processing system, a processing unit in a computing device generates a frame to be displayed based on a graphics content for an application miming on the computing device. The frame to be displayed is then divided into a plurality of block groups which are compressed. The plurality of compressed block groups are sent to a graphics display device over a wireless link. In this manner, both the generation and the compression of the frame to be displayed may be completed at the same processing unit in the computing device, which avoids data copying and simplifies processing operations. Thereby, the data processing speed and efficiency is improved significantly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Yunxin Liu, Jiasong Zhang, Lintao Zhang, Thomas Moscibroda
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Patent number: 10977068Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media that utilize a low-impact live-migration system to reduce unfavorable impacts caused as a result of live-migrating computing containers between physical server devices of a cloud computing system. For example, systems disclosed herein evaluates characteristics of computing containers on server devices to determine a predicted unfavorable impact of live-migrating the computing containers between the server devices. Based on the predicted impact, the systems disclosed herein can selectively identify which computing containers to live-migrate as well as carry out live-migration of the select computing containers in such a way the significantly reduces unfavorable impacts to a customer or client device associated with the computing containers.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Eli Cortez, Ajay Mani, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Nisarg Tarakkumar Sheth, Thomas Moscibroda, Ana-Maria Constantin
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Patent number: 10944132Abstract: Techniques for dynamically changing internal state of a battery are described herein. Generally, different battery configurations are described that enable transitions between different battery power states, such as to accommodate different battery charge and/or discharge scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stephen E. Hodges, Ranveer Chandra, Julia L Meinershagen, Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Anirudh Badam, Thomas Moscibroda, Anthony John Ferrese