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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:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2012
Applicants:
Erik V. Carlin, San Antonio, TX (US);
Brad K. Mcconnell, Cibolo, TX (US);
Inventors:
Erik V. Carlin, San Antonio, TX (US);
Brad K. McConnell, Cibolo, TX (US);
Assignee:
Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5011 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention can be used to efficiently allocate on-demand resources to a customer of a data center such as a multi-tenant data center having resources dedicated to given customers, as well as on-demand resources that can be flexibly provisioned to customers using a performance zone concept realized via logical switches to present a single logical network to the customer.