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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2014
Nextbit Systems Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael A. Chan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Quan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel R. Bornstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tom Moss, Los Altos, CA (US);
Linda Tong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method of resource balancing execution of an application involving multiple devices. The method can include: identifying an application executing on an operating system of a first computing device; identifying a resource type to facilitate the executing of the application; identifying multiple computing devices each having at least an available resource instance of the identified resource type, wherein the multiple computing devices are reachable by a communication protocol of the first computing device; and selecting a target computing device to offer up a target resource instance of the resource type to the application based at least partly on a comparable limitation of each available resource instance of the multiple computing devices.