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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Vanam Bedekar, Redmond, WA (US);
Sriram Sankaran, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marvin McNett, II, Redmond, WA (US);
Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yang Zhang, Issquah, WA (US);
Shyam Antony, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kavitha Manivannan, Redmond, WA (US);
Hemal Khatri, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for assigning and associating resources in a cloud computing environment. Virtual machines in the cloud computing environment can be assigned or associated with pools corresponding to users as dedicated, standby, or preemptible machines. The various states provide users with the ability to reserve a desired level of resources while also allowing the operator of the cloud computing environment to increase resource utilization.