Patents by Inventor Xiaoding BIAN

Xiaoding BIAN 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).

  • CLONING VIRTUAL MACHINES
    Publication number: 20160299708
    Abstract: A virtual machine system clones a parent virtual machine on a host by creating an open virtualization format (OVF) package of the parent virtual machine, creating a metainfo file of the OVF package, sending the metainfo file to a tracker, and cloning the parent virtual machine to other hosts by accessing the tracker to determine pieces of the OVF packages are located on the host and any of the other hosts, downloading the pieces of the OVF packages to the other hosts, assembling the OVF package on the other hosts, and deploying full clones of the parent virtual machine on the other hosts from the assembled OVF package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Ji YANG, Yonghua LIN, Xiaoding BIAN
  • Cloning virtual machines
    Patent number: 9459803
    Abstract: A virtual machine system clones a parent virtual machine on a host by creating an open virtualization format (OVF) package of the parent virtual machine, creating a metainfo file of the OVF package, sending the metainfo file to a tracker, and cloning the parent virtual machine to other hosts by accessing the tracker to determine pieces of the OVF packages are located on the host and any of the other hosts, downloading the pieces of the OVF packages to the other hosts, assembling the OVF package on the other hosts, and deploying full clones of the parent virtual machine on the other hosts from the assembled OVF package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Yang, Yonghua Lin, Xiaoding Bian
  • Rapid creation and reconfiguration of virtual machines on hosts
    Patent number: 9329889
    Abstract: A rapid virtual machine (VM) cloning technique is provided that creates cloned VMs on hosts from multiple source VMs, rather than a single source VM that may otherwise be a bottleneck. The described technique selects particular hosts, disposed in particular racks, on which to create VM clones in a dynamic manner that reduces total deployment time for the plurality of VMs. A rapid VM reconfiguration technique is also provided that reduces the time spent reconfiguring the provisioned VMs for use in a distributed computing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghua Lin, Qiuhui Li, Junping Du, Xiaoding Bian, Guang Lu
  • RAPID CREATION AND RECONFIGURATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES ON HOSTS
    Publication number: 20150277952
    Abstract: A rapid virtual machine (VM) cloning technique is provided that creates cloned VMs on hosts from multiple source VMs, rather than a single source VM that may otherwise be a bottleneck. The described technique selects particular hosts, disposed in particular racks, on which to create VM clones in a dynamic manner that reduces total deployment time for the plurality of VMs. A rapid VM reconfiguration technique is also provided that reduces the time spent reconfiguring the provisioned VMs for use in a distributed computing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Yonghua LIN, Qiuhui LI, Junping DU, Xiaoding BIAN, Guang LU