US Patent Issued on Dec. 23 for "Methods and systems for dynamically optimizing and modifying allocation of virtual resources to processes" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,998, issued on Dec. 23.

"Methods and systems for dynamically optimizing and modifying allocation of virtual resources to processes" was invented by Zhiming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hakim Weatherspoon (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Robbert Van Renesse (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamically optimizing and modifying allocation of virtual resources to processes includes allocating, by a first hypervisor, a first amount of a first virtual resource to a process executing in a virtual machine on a first machine. An agent, in communication with a resource allocation process executing in the virtual machine, determines a s...