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Patent No.:

US 9438477 B1

PDFFull Text
Expired
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2015

Geophysical virtual machine policy allocation using a gps, atomic clock source or regional peering host

Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Ian J. McCloy, Salford, GB;

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorney:

James L. Baudino

Primary Examiner:

Eric C Wai

Assistant Examiner:

Bradley Teets

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for virtual machine allocation is disclosed. The method includes: responsive to receiving a request to allocate a virtual machine, determining a geophysical location of a host for the virtual machine; determining a geophysical policy for the virtual machine; determining whether the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host for the virtual machine; and responsive to determining that the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host, allocating the virtual machine.

Find Patent Forward Citations

McCloy, Ian. (2016). Geophysical virtual machine policy allocation using a gps, atomic clock source or regional peering host (U.S. Patent No. 9438477). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9438477

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