Patents by Inventor Tina Stewart

Tina Stewart 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).

  • Data center scheduler
    Patent number: 7984156
    Abstract: An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gauthier, James R Hamilton, Heather E. Warncke, Tina Stewart
  • Data Center Scheduler
    Publication number: 20110066728
    Abstract: An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gauthier, James R. Hamilton, Heather E. Warncke, Tina Stewart
  • Data center scheduler
    Patent number: 7860973
    Abstract: An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gauthier, James R Hamilton, Heather E Warncke, Tina Stewart
  • Data Center Scheduler
    Publication number: 20090327493
    Abstract: An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Gauthier, James R. Hamilton, Heather E. Warncke, Tina Stewart