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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2010
David Gauthier, Seattle, WA (US);
James R Hamilton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Heather E. Warncke, Seattle, WA (US);
Tina Stewart, Seattle, WA (US);
David Gauthier, Seattle, WA (US);
James R Hamilton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Heather E. Warncke, Seattle, WA (US);
Tina Stewart, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.