Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Jvi, Inc.

Stephen R Johnson, Jr

Jason Anthony Lochhead

Manikandan Subramanian

Emmanuel Kothapally

Randy Rowland

Charles Magnesio

A virtualization control system may receive a set of parameters; and provision a virtual environment. The provisioning may include provisioning a set of resources for the virtual environment. An amount of resources, associated with the set of resources, may be based on the received set of parameters. The virtualization control system may monitor resource usage of the virtual environment; detect that usage of at least one resource, of the provisioned set of resources, exceeds a particular usage threshold; and enable, based on the detecting, a burst usage mode for the virtual environment. The enabling may include provisioning an additional set of resources for the virtual environment. The additional set of resources may include a greater amount of resources than the amount of resources that are provisioned based on the received set of parameters.

System and method for customer provisioning in a utility computing platform

Systems and methods are provided for provisioning a virtual server. An identification of an operating system, a server name, a number of processors, a memory amount, and a disk storage amount is received, and a virtual server is provisioned by provisioning a number of processors, an amount of memory, and an amount of storage resources based on the identified number of processors, the identified memory amount, and the identified disk storage amount. Resource usage of the virtual server is monitored, and additional resources for the virtual server are provisioned if burst resource usage mode is enabled for the virtual server.

A utility computing platform includes a virtualization control system coupled to physical server, disk drive and networking resources and configured to partition the physical resources into virtual resources including virtual processor, memory and storage resources. The utility computing platform comprises a customer console application coupled to the virtualization control system, and accessible via an Internet connection to a customer computing system operating a web browser interface. The customer console application enables the customer, through the web browser interface, to create and manage one or more virtual servers within a customer environment by associating an amount of virtual processor, memory and storage resources with the one or more virtual servers.

The present invention relates to an improved flange connector,for adjoining adjacent concrete structural members,. The flange connector,is a one-piece steel member having a faceplate,, opposing faceplate returns,, flattening bends,, embedded legs,and reinforcing tabs,. To allow the faceplate,to expand during welding, the opposing faceplate returns,extend away from the faceplate,at approximately ninety degree (90&deg;) angles. The embedded legs,then extend from the faceplate returns,by way of flattening bends,that span between the embedded legs,and the faceplate returns,. The flattening bends,extend away from the faceplate returns,at an angle that allows the embedded legs,to be positioned in a plane substantially parallel to the horizontal surface of the concrete structural members,. To allow the flange connector,to flex in both the upward and downward directions, one flattening bend,extends from the upper portion of a faceplate return,and the opposing flattening bend,extends from the lower portion of the faceplate return,. The length of the flattening bends,are such that one embedded leg,can be positioned above and one embedded leg,can be positioned below the reinforced mesh,in the concrete structural member,. Reinforcing tabs,having holes,extend from the embedded legs,so that a reinforced steel bar,can be flexed through the reinforcing tabs,to mechanically tie the flange connector,to the mesh

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Flower Mound, TX, United States of America

Stephen R Johnson, Jr