Patents by Inventor Xiaopan Zhang

Xiaopan Zhang 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).

  • Flexible processor association for virtual machines
    Patent number: 9898329
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to flexible processor association for virtual machine instances. One example method includes initializing a virtual machine instance on a particular computing device, the particular computing device including a plurality of physical processors, determining a maximum number of the physical processors available to be associated with the virtual machine instance; initializing a number of virtual processors for use by the virtual machine instance, the same as the maximum number of the physical processors; associating the virtual machine instance with a number of the physical processors less than the maximum number of the physical processors; during execution of the virtual machine instance: identifying a change in a demand metric associated with the virtual machine instance; and adjusting the number of the physical processors associated with the virtual machine instance based on the identified change in the demand metric while maintaining the number of virtual processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xiao Zhang, Xiaopan Zhang
  • Flexible processor association for virtual machines
    Patent number: 9389894
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to flexible processor association for virtual machine instances. One example method includes initializing a virtual machine instance on a particular computing device, the particular computing device including a plurality of physical processors, determining a maximum number of the physical processors available to be associated with the virtual machine instance; initializing a number of virtual processors for use by the virtual machine instance, the same as the maximum number of the physical processors; associating the virtual machine instance with a number of the physical processors less than the maximum number of the physical processors; during execution of the virtual machine instance: identifying a change in a demand metric associated with the virtual machine instance; and adjusting the number of the physical processors associated with the virtual machine instance based on the identified change in the demand metric while maintaining the number of virtual processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Zhang, Xiaopan Zhang