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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.:

US 9292319 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013

Global computing interface

Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph S. Beda, III, Seattle, WA (US);

Cristian Petrescu-Prahova, Seattle, WA (US);

Vishesh Khemani, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Charles Swift

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/48 (2013.01); G06F 9/485 (2013.01); G06F 9/4806 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 9/4868 (2013.01); G06F 9/4875 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/5005 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 9/5022 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 9/5055 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a global computing interface. One of the methods includes maintaining a global database of virtual machine configuration information, the database including information on cloud computing resources in each of a plurality of regions, wherein each region of the plurality of regions includes one or more datacenters. A virtual machine image is received in a first region. The global database is updated with configuration information about the received virtual machine image that is stored in the first region. A request is received to start one or more virtual machines from the virtual machine image in a second different region, and the virtual machine image is transmitted from the first region to the second region and one or more virtual machines are started from the virtual machine image in a datacenter of the second different region.

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