METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PRICE CUSTOMIZED VIRTUAL MACHINES

Patent №

US 9,870,568

Granted

2018-01-16

Filed 2013

Owner

XEROX CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14083789

Methods and systems for determining prices of customized virtual machines required to process customer-specified workloads are disclosed. A count of instances of the customized virtual machines, required to process the customer-specified workloads is determined, based on a configuration of the customized virtual machines. The instances of the customized virtual machines are consolidated on virtual machine servers. Further, the prices of the customized virtual machines are determined based on a count of the virtual machine servers, unused resources in the virtual machine servers, and unused resources in the customized virtual machines. The determined prices are recommended to the customer. Further, at least one of the prices of the customized virtual machines or the configuration of at least one or more customized virtual machines is modified, based on a response to the recommendation received from the customer.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.44
Evolutionary computation0.06
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

XEROX CORPORATION

assignment · 316360516

Assignors

JUNG, GUEYOUNG , ,, MUKHERJEE, TRIDIB , ,, KUNDE, SHRUTI , ,

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

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