MAINTENANCE-COST-AWARE BILLING FOR CLOUD SERVICES

Patent №

US 8,554,649

Granted

2013-10-08

Filed 2012

Owner

EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC

Lab

AI components

3

kr · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13576383

In some examples, a method for performing maintenance-cost-aware billing is described. The method may include generating a version of a virtual machine image. The method may also include calculating a usage charge for usage of an instantiated virtual machine corresponding to the version of the virtual machine image. The calculation of the usage charge may be based on an age of the version of the virtual machine image.

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Knowledge representation0.67
Evolutionary computation0.62
Planning0.01
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC

assignment · 279060227

Assignors

KURABAYASHI, SHUICHI, YOSHIDA, NAOFUMI, TAKANO, KOSUKE, KURABAYASHI, SHUICHI, YOSHIDA, NAOFUMI, TAKANO, KOSUKE

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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