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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Euan Peter Garden, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); A63F 13/355 (2014.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/355 (2014.09); G06F 9/5061 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/2405 (2013.01); H04N 21/2408 (2013.01); H04N 21/4781 (2013.01); A63F 2300/534 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention relate to a multimode gaming server that can run in game mode and video encode mode. Aspects of the invention can monitor demand for different computing projects in a data center and change the gaming servers into different modes to meet the demand. The arrangement of gaming servers in the different modes can be established to balance heat generation evenly throughout a data center.