17308 results about "Resource utilization" patented technology

A virtual machine management / monitoring service can be configured to automatically monitor and implement user-defined (e.g., administrator-defined) configuration policies with respect to virtual machine and application resource utilization. In one implementation, the monitoring service can be extended to provide user-customized alerts based on various particularly defined events that occur (e.g., some memory or processing threshold) during operation of the virtual machines and / or application execution. The user can also specify particularly tailored solutions, which can include automatically reallocating physical host resources without additional user input on a given physical host, or moving / adding virtual machines on other physical hosts. For example, the monitoring service can be configured so that, upon identifying that a virtual machine's memory and processing resources are maxed out and / or growing, the monitoring service adds memory or processing resources for the virtual machine, or adds a new virtual machine to handle the load for the application program.

A method of and system for providing an incentive program for conserving a consumable resource such as electricity, natural gas, oil, air or water. The present invention monitors utilization of the resource at a location, and then determines a type and quantity of variable resource points to be provided to an account associated with the location or with a participant by analyzing the monitored resource utilization with respect to a plurality of varying conditions (time-variant, location-variant, cost-variant etc.). These conditions may be independent or interdependent; these relationships will be incorporated into the calculations resulting in the award of the type and quantity of resource points determined by the Program. The resource points are then stored in an account associated with the location or with a participant for future use.

Access to a communications network may be provided via a data provider that may charge for access. In some cases, the access fee may be related to the amount of network resources consumed (e.g., amount of data downloaded or bandwidth used). In some cases, a user may have access to a particular amount of data provider resources and be required to pay an additional fee for using resources in excess of the particular amount. To assist the user in managing his data resource consumption, a resource utilization component may provide different alerts and notices informing the user of current consumption, expected future consumption, and recommendations for reducing data provider resources consumed (e.g., stopping particular processes or data provider requests, such as downloading media). If several electronic devices in a network are connected to the same data provider resources, a network component may manage the data provider resource use among the several electronic devices (e.g., allow only particular users or devices access).

Methods, systems, and computer program products for improving installation of software packages using an incremental conditional installation process (and optionally, caching of installation components). An object model is disclosed which enables specification of the conditional installation information as one or more elements of the model (and therefore of an object, document, etc., which is created according to the model). Conditional installation information may be defined at a suite level and / or at a component level. The identified checking process then executes to determine whether the corresponding suite or component should be installed. One or more components may be cached, if desired. Resource utilization is improved using the conditional installation and optional caching techniques, enabling reductions in disk space usage, CPU consumption, and / or networking bandwidth consumption.

The present invention, in various embodiments, provides techniques for managing system power. In one embodiment, system compute loads and / or system resources invoked by services running on the system consume power. To better manage power consumption, the spare capacity of a system resource is periodically measured, and if this spare capacity is outside a predefined range, then the resource operation is adjusted, e.g., the CPU speed is increased or decreased, so that the spare capacity is within the range. Further, the spare capacity is kept as close to zero as practical, and this spare capacity is determined based on the statistical distribution of a number of utilization values of the resources, which is also taken periodically. The spare capacity is also calculated based on considerations of the probability that the system resources are saturated. In one embodiment, to maintain the services required by a Service Level Agreement (SLA), a correlation between an SLA parameter and a resource utilization is determined. In addition to other factors and the correlation of the parameters, the spare capacity of the resource utilization is adjusted based on the spare capacity of the SLA parameter. Various embodiments include optimizing system performance before calculating system spare capacity, saving power for system groups or clusters, saving power for special conditions such as brown-out, high temperature, etc.

In next generation wireless networks such as a Mobile WiMAX traffic prioritization is used to provide differentiated quality of service (QoS). Unnecessary ping-pong handovers that result from premature reaction to fluctuating radio resources pose a great threat to the QoS of delay sensitive connections such as VoIP which are sensitive to scanning and require heavy handover mechanisms. Traffic-class-specific variables are defined to tolerate unbalance in the radio system in order to avoid making the system slow to react to traffic variations and decreasing system wide resource utilization. By setting thresholds to trigger load balancing gradually in fluctuating environment the delay sensitive connections avoid unnecessary handovers and the delay tolerant connections have a chance to react to the load increase and get higher bandwidth from a less congested BS. A framework for the resolution of static user terminals in the overlapping area within adjacent cells will be described.

Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating the configuration of parameters controlling utilization of a network resource. In one embodiment, the present invention allows a network administrator to quickly and easily configure effective bandwidth utilization controls and observe the results of applying them. According to one embodiment, a network administrator is presented with an interface displaying the most significant traffic types with respect to a bandwidth utilization or other network statistic and allowing for the association of bandwidth utilization controls to these traffic types.

An analytics engine receives real-time statistics from a set of virtual machines supporting a line of business (LOB) application. The statistics relate to computing resource utilization and are used by the analytics engine to generate a prediction of demand for the LOB application in order to dynamically control the provisioning of virtual machines to support the LOB application.

In one embodiment, a method for dynamic wireless resource utilization includes monitoring a wireless communication resource; generating wireless communication resource data; using the wireless communication resource data, predicting the occurrence of one or more holes in a future time period; generating hole prediction data; using the hole prediction data, synthesizing one or more wireless communication channels from the one or more predicted holes; generating channel synthesis data; receiving data reflecting feedback from a previous wireless communication attempt and data reflecting a network condition; according to the received data and the channel synthesis data, selecting a particular wireless communication channel from the one or more synthesized wireless communication channels; generating wireless communication channel selection data; using the wireless communication channel selection data, instructing a radio unit to communicate using the selected wireless communication channel; and instructing the radio unit to discontinue use of the selected wireless communication channel after the communication has been completed.

An approach is provided in which a first virtual machine, executing on a host computer system, generates a data packet with a target destination at a second virtual machine over a computer network. The host computer system identifies a data flow corresponding to the data packet based the data packet's header information, and analyzes path weightings of available paths that are made available to the identified data flow. In turn, the host computer system assigns one of the available paths to the identified data flow corresponding to a pre-defined physical layer path from the first virtual machine to the second virtual machine.

A cost estimation tool, preferably a handheld computer, prices and evaluates the financial impact of new residents' prior to admission. Immediate access to this information and built-in therapeutic substitution and clinical advisories provides the opportunity to optimize pharmaceutical regimens prior to admission. In addition, an abbreviated Resource Utilization Group (RUG) evaluation function provides a rapid assessment tool to project reimbursement under the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS). A user may enter a complete drug regimen and estimate the costs for the regimen. Similarly, managed care reimbursement from managed care organizations (MCOs) to be analyzed. Also, drug cost may be estimated through a MEDICAID Preferred Drug List database that identifies potential Non-Preferred drugs that may be non-compensable. The present invention further transmits results wirelessly to health care providers.

A dynamic state manager (DSM) for a server cloud manager (SCM) of a virtualized logical server cloud including a resource definition, a rules module and a state manager engine. The resource definition incorporates information of the available physical and logical resources of the server cloud, including cost, priority, usage and demand information of the resources. The resource definition further incorporates dependencies and relationships between physical and logical resources. The rules module includes predetermined behavioral rules based on demand, usage, priority and cost information. The behavioral rules define optimized resource utilization of the resources of the server cloud. The state manager engine is linked to the resource definition and the rules module and cooperates with the SCM to apply the behavioral rules to achieve optimized resource utilization.

The invention provides a task-dynamic dispatching method under a distributed computation mode in a cloud computing environment, which comprises the following four steps: 1. a main node receives and analyzes heartbeat information of a subsidiary node; 2. the main node previously distributes the task according to a node state table and a task state table; 3. the subsidiary node demands the task from the main node; and 4. the main node distributes the task to the subsidiary node. The method firstly considers the resource demand of the task and the performance information of the nodes, and dynamically controls the distribution of the task under the condition that the requirement is met, so that the response speed of the work and the resource utilization of the nodes are improved. The method has wide practical value and application prospect in the technical field of the distributed computation in the cloud computing environment.

Access to a communications network may be provided via a data provider that may charge for access. In some cases, the access fee may be related to the amount of network resources consumed (e.g., amount of data downloaded or bandwidth used). In some cases, a user may have access to a particular amount of data provider resources and be required to pay an additional fee for using resources in excess of the particular amount. To assist the user in managing his data resource consumption, a resource utilization component may provide different alerts and notices informing the user of current consumption, expected future consumption, and recommendations for reducing data provider resources consumed (e.g., stopping particular processes or data provider requests, such as downloading media). If several electronic devices in a network are connected to the same data provider resources, a network component may manage the data provider resource use among the several electronic devices (e.g., allow only particular users or devices access).

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and device for distributing virtual resources based on disk IO. The method includes the steps that a VNFM is used for sending a request for applying for the virtual resources to a VIM according to information for describing QoS of disk read-write IO of at least one virtual machine with at least one VNF by a VNFD, wherein the description information includes resource information of QoS of the disk IO of at least one virtual machine in the regular service execution process and resource information of QoS of the disk IO in the burst traffic process. The request for applying for the virtual resources includes the description information. Furthermore, the VIM conducts resource distribution according to the request for applying for the virtual resources, services can be more reasonably deployed and can more effectively utilize physical resources, and therefore the overall resource utilization rate of a system is increased.

The invention relates to a system level virtualization technology and an energy-saving technology in the field of the structure of a computer system, and discloses an energy-saving method of a cloud data center based on virtual machine migration and load perception integration. The method comprises the steps: dynamically completing the migration and the reintegration of the load of a virtual machine in the cloud data center by monitoring the resource utilization rate of a physical machine and the virtual machine and the resource use condition of current each physical server under the uniform coordination and control of an optimized integration strategy management module of the load perception and an on-line migration control module of the virtual machine, and tuning off the physical servers which run without the load, so that the total use ratio of the server resource is improved, and the aim of energy saving is achieved. The energy-saving method of the cloud data center based on the virtual machine on-line migration and the load perception integration technology is effectively realized, the amount of the physical servers which are actually demanded by the cloud data center is reduced, and the green energy saving is realized.

DNS name resolution is integrated into each node in a network storage cluster, to allow load balancing of network addresses, using a weighted random distribution to resolve DNS requests. A node in the cluster gathers statistics on utilization of resources, such as CPU utilization and throughput, on nodes in the cluster and distributes those statistics to all other nodes. Each node uses the same algorithm to generate weights for the various IP addresses of the cluster, based on the statistics distributed to it. The weights are used to generate a weighted list of available network addresses. In response to a DNS request, a DNS in a given node randomly indexes into the weighted address list to resolve requests to a network address. The weights are chosen so that the DNS is likely to pick an IP address which has a low load, to balance port and node usage over time.

A system and method for supporting coordination of resources for events in an organization includes a knowledge component storing a resource-utilization model, the resource-utilization model comprising at least one ontology, each ontology comprising a respective schema and data stored according to the schema; a knowledge acquisition component adapting the resource-utilization model in real-time in response to receiving data from various sources about resource utilization in the organization; a domain reasoner adapting the resource-utilization model based on contents of a modifiable set of rules applied by the organization; and a query endpoint receiving queries about resources for events and responding to the queries based on the resource-utilization model.

A system for automated concurrency configuration of multi-threaded programs comprises one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores program instructions executable by the processors to implement a resource management tool. The resource management tool is configured to determine respective target values for one or more concurrency configuration parameters to be set in a deployment of an application using an analytic model and a set of performance metrics obtained from the application (e.g., values of throughput, response times, and corresponding resource utilization measurements), and to deploy the application with the concurrency configuration parameters set to the target values.

The present invention provides for redistributing workloads among computers to optimize resource utilization. Utilization by software workloads of computer resources is monitored to yield utilization data. A utilization chronology is updated using the utilization data. The chronology is analyzed to yield resource utilization predictions. The workloads are redistributed among the resources at least in part as function of said predictions.

Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a single instance of a distributed computing application over a plurality of clouds and container clusters, including container clusters provided through a Container as a Service (CaaS) offering. In some embodiments, system and pattern constructs associated with a hybrid distributed multi-tier application may be used to obtain an infrastructure independent representation of the distributed multi-tier application. The infrastructure independent representation may comprise a representation of an underlying pattern of resource utilization of the application. Further, the underlying pattern of resource utilization of the application may be neither cloud specific nor container cluster specific. In some embodiments, a single instance of the hybrid distributed multi-tier application may be deployed on a plurality of cloud infrastructures and on at least one container cluster, based, in part, on the cloud-infrastructure independent representation of the application.

The invention discloses a distributed type dynamic cache expanding method and system supporting load balancing, which belong to the technical field of software. The method comprises steps of: 1) monitoring respective resource utilization rate at regular intervals by each cache server; 2) calculating respective weighing load value Li according to the current monitored resource utilization rate, and sending the weighting load value Li to a cache clustering manager by each cache server; 3) calculating current average load value of a distributed cache system by the cache clustering manager according to the weighting load value Li, and executing expansion operation when the current average load value is higher than a threshold thremax; and executing shrink operation when the current average load value is lower than a set threshold thremin. The system comprises the cache servers, a cache client side and the cache clustering manager, wherein the cache servers are connected with the cache client side and the cache clustering manager through the network. The invention ensures the uniform distribution of the network flow among the cache nodes, optimizes the utilization rate of system resources, and solves the problems of ensuring data consistency and continuous availability of services.

A method of and system for providing a consumable resource such as electricity, natural gas, oil, air or water together with an incentive program of variable resource points to reward the buyer for not using the resource being provided. The invention monitors utilization of the resource at a location, and then determines a type and quantity of variable resource points to be provided to an account associated with the location or with a participant by analyzing the monitored resource utilization with respect to a plurality of varying conditions (time-variant, location-variant, cost-variant etc.). The resource points are then stored in an account associated with the location or with a participant for future use.

The invention provides a sending and receiving method and apparatus of control signaling, and an information determining method and apparatus. The method comprises the following steps: determining second information according to first information, wherein the second information comprises at least one of: the number of bits used in first control signaling to notify a first transmission parameter, an index value referred by the first transmission parameter in the first control signaling, a corresponding mapping table between the values of the first transmission parameter, the type of the first transmission parameter notified in a predetermined indication domain in the first control signaling, and location information of the bit used for notifying the first transmission parameter in the firstcontrol signaling; the first information comprises a transmission time interval between the first control signaling and a first signal and a relationship between predetermined thresholds K, and N andK are non-negative integers; and sending the first control signaling. Therefore, the problem of low resource utilization rate because the bit domains of the notification beams in the physical layer dynamic control signaling are not fully utilized in related art is solved.

The present invention reduces the burden of the network having heavier load, maintains the load balance among different networks, and improves the overall resource utilization efficiency and transmission qualities of the networks, by providing a network forwarding apparatus for selectively distributing the IP packets to be forwarded to the network having less traffic for transmission by monitoring in real-time the traffic in the different networks.

The invention relates to a mobile terminal communicating resource requests for dedicated uplink channel resources in a mobile communication system. Further, the invention also relates to a method for communicating resource requests for dedicated uplink channel resources in a mobile communication system. To allow the serving cell to detect “DOWN” commands from non-serving cells during soft handover the invention suggests a new definition of criteria for setting the “happy bit” in the control information associated to data transmitted on dedicated uplink channels. According to these criteria the mobile terminal may not indicate an unhappy condition while ramping up resource utilization. Only if resources equivalent to the maximum serving grant are utilized, the transmission buffer status requires to and the power status of the terminal allows for the happy bit is set to indicate a unhappy condition.

The invention discloses a data transmission method of a terminal direct communication in a cellular and D2D hybrid network, which comprises the following operation steps of: (1) while initializing a network, dividing spectrum resources for a common control channel (CCCH) of D2D communication, and providing a same frame structure for the D2D communication and cellular communication; (2) allocating the CCCH spectrum of the D2D communication, and defining a signaling and temporal relation loaded on the CCCH; (3) before starting the D2D communication, acquiring uplink resource allocation information of cellular user equipment (UE) by D2D UE, and measuring signals loaded on the allocation resources depending on the information, to obtain information on interference intensity of the various cellular UE; and (4) when transmitting the data by the D2D UE, interacting by a public control signaling and the temporal relation thereof to compete for cellular uplink resources; and implementing a wireless resource management decision depending on the measured interference information, to complete the data transmission. The data transmission method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the operation is simple and convenient, wireless resource utilization rate is improved, D2D data transmission is more efficient, and the interference with the cellular communication can be avoided.

The invention provides a building method for a distribution virtual machine monitor system which adopts the most advanced virtualization technology for deploying and building the distribution virtual machine monitor system DVMM on a plurality of physical nodes above hardware and below an operation system, integrates and virtualizes the resources of a plurality of computers into virtual resources through the DVMM for centralized and united management. According to the application demands, the method can integrate the resources of a plurality of machines into a virtual machine provided with a single system mapping for a user to use so as to meet the resource demand of super application; besides, the method can build a plurality of virtual machines on one machine, thereby integrating a plurality of applications of small scales on one machine for improving the operating factors of the resources; therefore, the building method can fully utilize the existing resources for meeting the demands of various applications and has a broad application prospect as well as generates a remarkable economic benefit.

Instrumented networks and platforms having target subjects (devices, transactions, services, users, organizations) are disclosed. A security orchestration service generates runtime operational integrity profiles representing and identifying a level of threat or contextual trustworthiness, at near real time, of subjects and applications on the instrumented target platform. Methods and systems are disclosed for network flow and device / platform remediation in response to reconnaissance-based intelligence correlation based on network monitoring, to accomplish network flow remediation and device / platform remediation. In an embodiment, a system receives system warnings and endpoint threat intelligence. The system correlates risk based on inputs from sensory inputs that monitor network activity, system configuration, resource utilization, and device integrity. The system then performs a calculus of risk on a global security context including endpoint assessment reports and sends system warnings based upon the endpoint threat intelligence. The system includes a remediation engine for receiving real time directives to control the device.