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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Christopher N. Bailey, Southampton, GB;

Alexander J. Kelly, Romsey, GB;

Alexander D. S. Mirski-Fitton, Chandlers Ford, GB;

Edwin P. J. Moffatt, Winchester, GB;

Ross B. Pavitt, Headley, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

The method includes estimating an amount of unused memory in a memory allocation of one or more virtual machines based on a data associated with one or more applications previously dispatched to the one or more virtual machines. The method includes receiving a request for executing a new application. The method includes estimating an amount of memory utilized by one of the one or more virtual machines to execute the new application. The method includes dispatching the new application to one of the one or more virtual machine having an amount of unused memory exceeding the estimated amount of memory required to execute the new application. The method includes updating the data associated with the one or more applications previously dispatched to the one or more virtual machines by adding an identifier of the new application to the data.


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