Anil Kumar Sharma

US Patent:

20180095997, Apr 5, 2018

Filed:

Dec 5, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/832065

Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Ricky Trigalo - Palo Alto CA, US
Jivan Madtha - Pune IN, US
Anil Sharma - Palo Alto CA, US
Joerg Lew - Rettenberg, DE

Assignee:

VMware, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

Abstract:

The current document is directed a resource-exchange system that facilitates resource exchange and sharing among computing facilities. The currently disclosed methods and systems employ efficient, distributed-search-based auction methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems that include large numbers of geographically distributed data centers to locate resource-provider computing facilities that match the resource needs of resource-consumer computing facilities. Multiple security methods and subsystems are employed to prevent unauthorized access to resource-exchange-system services, to secure resource-exchange-system-participant data from unauthorized access, and to prevent hosted virtual machines and other hosted computational entities from interfering with operation of native virtual machines and other native computational entities within hosting resource-provider computing facilities.

US Patent:

20180063021, Mar 1, 2018

Filed:

Jun 29, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/637353

Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Ricky Trigalo - Palo Alto CA, US
Joerg Lew - Rettenberg, DE
Jivan Madtha - Pune, IN
Anil Sharma - Palo Alto CA, US

Assignee:

VMware, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

H04L 12/911
H04L 12/927
H04L 29/08
G06F 9/50

Abstract:

The current document is directed to a resource-exchange system that facilitates resource exchange and sharing among computing facilities. The currently disclosed methods and systems employ efficient, distributed-search methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems that include large numbers of geographically distributed data centers to locate resource-provider computing facilities that match the resource needs of resource-consumer computing-facilities based on attribute values associated with the needed resources, the resource providers, and the resource consumers. The resource-exchange system organizes and tracks operations related to a resource exchange using a resource-exchange context. In one implementation, each resource-exchange context represents the stages of, and information related to, placement of one or more computational-resources-consuming entities on behalf of a resource consumer within a resource-provider computing facility and execution of the one or more computational-resources-consuming entities within the resource-provider computing facility.