International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Lenovo Limited

Eric Richard Kern

Daryl Carvis Cromer

Randall Scott Springfield

Brandon Jon Ellison

Howard J Locker

Richard Alan Dayan

James Peter Ward

Joseph Wayne Freeman

Steven Dale Goodman

Brandon John Ellison

Simon C Chu

William Gabriel Pagan

Theodore Brian Vojnovich

Scott Neil Dunham

William Bradley Schwartz

William Edward Atherton

Thomas James Fox

Robert Duane Johnson

Gregory William Dake

Marcus Alan Baker

Michael Scott Rollins

Chad Lee Gettelfinger

William Joseph Piazza

David Benson Rhoades

Sumeet Kochar

Norman Clark Strole

Dhruv Manmohandas Desai

Andrew Boyce McNeill, Jr

Thomas Charles Burke

John Matthew Landry

Adam Lee Soderlund

Shane Michael Lardinois

James William Dalton

Edward Stanely Suffern

Keith Manders Campbell

Andy Lloyd Trotter

Edward Victor Zorek, Sr

Gregory William Kilmer

Caroline Magdy Metry

Ameha Aklilu

James Alexander Day, Jr

Jason Robert Almeida

Gregg Kent Gibson

Celia Anne Schreiber

Jordan Hsiao Ping Chin

Charles Christian Queen

James Patrick Sigmon

James F Boland, Iv

David Carroll Challener

Luke David Remis

Richard Wayne Cheston

James Patrick Hoff

James Edward Hughes

Katherine Barabash

Joseph Edward Bolan

Edward Stanley Suffern

Thomas Dixon Pahel, Jr

William Fred Keown, Jr

Tong Yu

Martin Tross

Candice Leontine Coletrane

Timothy M Wiwel

Ben-Ami Yassour

Irit Loy

David Robert Woodham

Peter Thomas Donovan

Courtney Seth Bair

Robert Joseph Evans

Gerhard Nikolaus Buckler

Kamran Amini

William John Vanca

Torez Smith

Zeynep Dayar

Paul K Scrutton

Logan S Gabriel

Johnny Nieves

Jordan Hp Chin

Robyn Alicia McGlotten

Nazir Haroon Ahmad

Edward Zorek

Chambrea Michelle Little

Sarah E Smith

Janae V Simons

David R Chiluk

Robert K Christner

Daryl Carvis c/o Ibm Uk Ltd Cromer

Brandon Jon Ibm Uk Ltd Ellison

Howard Ibm Uk Ltd Intellect Proprty Law Locker

A method for billing server utilization based on power includes receiving power consumption data of a remote server used by a customer, deriving a power-utilization correlation between power consumption of the remote server with utilization of the remote server, determining utilization of the remote server from the power consumption data and the power-utilization correlation, preparing a bill for the customer based on the determined utilization of the remote server, and sending the bill to the customer.

Correlating server power and server utilization for deriving billing from power consumption data

A method for using server power to predict failures includes receiving power consumption data and health alerts of a remote server, analyzing the power consumption data of the remote server to determine trends in the power consumption data, and comparing the trends in the power consumption data and the health alerts with a server failure model. The server failure model is derived from historical power consumption data and health alerts associated with one or more servers of a same type as the remote server. The method includes predicting a failure in the remote server based on the comparison between the trends in the power consumption data and the health alerts and the server failure model and sending an alert in response to the predicted failure. The alert indicates the predicted failure.

Using server power to predict failures

Propagating pin corrections through physically mating devices including bending one of a plurality of connectors of a first mating device; and mating the first mating device having the bent connector with an unmodified second mating device; wherein the mating of the first mating device and the unmodified second mating device bends a connector corresponding to the bent connector of the first mating device.

Propagating pin corrections through physically mating devices

Administration of virtual machine affinity in a cloud computing environment, where the cloud computing environment includes a plurality of virtual machines ('VMs'), the VMs composed of modules of automated computing machinery installed upon cloud computers disposed within a data center, the cloud computing environment also including a cloud operating system and a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs, including installing, by the cloud operating system on at least one VM, an indicator that at least two of the VMs have an affinity requirement to be installed upon separate cloud computers; communicating, by at least one of the VMs, the affinity requirement to the data center administration server; and moving by the data center administration server the VMs having the affinity requirement to separate cloud computers in the cloud computing environment.

Administration of virtual machine affinity in a cloud computing environment

Dynamically balancing resources in a server farm, where the server farm includes servers organized in functional server groups with the servers in each functional server group assigned a same type of data processing task, the servers operatively coupled to data storage through a packet switching fabric, the servers operatively coupled to a system management server, and the balancing of resources includes: monitoring, by a resource balancing module of the system management server, CPU utilization in at least one of the functional server groups; identifying, by the resource balancing module in dependence upon the monitored CPU utilization, an overburdened functional server group, the overburdened functional server group's CPU utilization exceeding a CPU overburden threshold; and increasing, by the resource balancing module, CPU resources of the overburdened functional server group, including moving a transfer server from a source functional server group into the overburdened functional server group.

Dynamically balancing resources in a server farm

Administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center, where the data center includes a plurality of virtual machines ('VMs'), each VM being a module of automated computing machinery installed upon a computer in the data center and characterized by a Universally Unique Identifier ('UUID'), at least two of the VMs having an affinity requirement to be installed on separate computers, the data center further including a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs, including communicating, by at least one of the VMs having an affinity requirement to the data center administration server, the UUIDs of the VMs having an affinity requirement; and moving by the data center administration server the VMs having an affinity requirement to separate computers in the data center.

Administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for telephone call co-processing in a mobile telephony environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of telephone call co-processing in a mobile telephony environment is provided. The method includes monitoring a resource state of a selected mobile telephone, such as cellular network signal strength or battery charge. The method additionally includes detecting weakness of the resource state sufficient to inhibit the maintenance of a telephone call in the selected mobile telephone. Finally, the method includes, in response to detecting weakness of the resource state, identifying a different mobile telephone proximate to the selected mobile telephone and utilizing the different mobile telephone to process a telephone call.

Telephone call co-processing in for mobile telephones

A computer program product and system for managing allocation of storage in a switch utilizing flow control are provided. The switch includes a plurality of ports and an internal storage divided into a plurality of storage units. The computer program product and system provide for monitoring an average number of storage units used by each of the plurality of ports over a predetermined time period, setting a threshold for the average number of storage units used by each of the plurality of ports, and allocating one or more available storage units assigned to a first port to a second port in response to storage allocation management being enabled for the second port and the average number of storage units used by the second port exceeding the threshold for the second port.

Storage allocation management in switches utilizing flow control

Sharing computer data among computers, including identifying by a user through a user interface on a first computer at least one object of a file system to be shared through a second computer; creating by a sharing file system generator on the first computer a sharing file system; installing by the sharing file system generator in the sharing file system the object to be shared; and exposing the object to be shared from the sharing file system to a second computer through a Universal Serial Bus ('USB') connection between the first computer and the second computer.

Sharing computer data among computers

Systems and arrangements for remotely selecting a bootable image via a WOL packet for a wake-on-LAN (WOL) capable computer are contemplated. Server-side embodiments include hardware and/or software for determining a client to be managed, determining whether the client is active on the network, and transmitting a WOL packet having a vector, or operating system partition identification (OSPID), to describe a bootable image accessible by the WOL capable computer. Some embodiments may include an OSPID that points to a secure bootable image such as a bootable image on a hard drive, a compact disk (CD) connected to the computer, or other local resource. Client-side embodiments may receive the WOL packet at, for instance, a network interface card (NIC), recognize that the WOL packet includes an OSPID that describes the bootable image to boot, and implement an alternative boot sequence to boot from that bootable image.

Remote management of boot application

A system and method for providing redundant video signals from a server blade in a blade center. A blade center is described that includes a capture system for capturing a video stream off a PCI-x bus in a server blade and delivering the pair of video streams to a midplane in the blade center; and a switch module that inputs the pair of video streams and generates an unroutable video signal and a routable video signal.

Blade center KVM distribution

Autonomic scaling of virtual machines in a cloud computing environment, the cloud computing environment including virtual machines ('VMs'), the VMs installed upon cloud computers disposed within a data center, also including a cloud operating system and a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs, including deploying, by the cloud operating system, an instance of a VM, flagging the instance of a VM for autonomic scaling; monitoring, by the cloud operating system, one or more operating characteristics of the instance of the VM; deploying, by the cloud operating system, an additional instance of the VM if a value of an operating characteristic exceeds a first predetermined threshold value, including executing a portion of the data processing workload on the additional instance of the VM; and terminating operation of the additional instance of the VM if a value of an operating characteristic declines below a second predetermined threshold value.

Autonomic scaling of virtual machines in a cloud computing environment

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for dynamically balancing resources in a server farm, the server farm comprising a plurality of servers organized in functional server groups with the servers in each functional server group assigned a same type of data processing task, the servers operatively coupled to data storage through a packet switching fabric, the servers operatively coupled to a system management server, the methods, apparatus, and products including: monitoring, by a resource balancing module of the system management server, CPU utilization in at least one of the functional server groups; identifying, by the resource balancing module in dependence upon the monitored CPU utilization, an overburdened functional server group, the overburdened functional server group's CPU utilization exceeding a CPU overburden threshold; and increasing, by the resource balancing module, CPU resources of the overburdened functional server group, including moving a transfer server from a source functional server group into the overburdened functional server group.

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Eric Richard Kern