Cloud computing capacity management system using automated fine-grained admission control

US11900171B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Gurpreet Virdi · Redmond, US
• Fernando Gonzalez Todisco · Bellevue, US
• Karthikeyan Subramanian · Chennai, IN
• Sanjay RAMANUJAN · Issaquah, US
• Sorin Iftimie · Issaquah, US
• Xing wen Wang · Redmond, US
• Thomas Moscibroda · Beijing, CN
• Yunus Mohammed · Redmond, US
• Vi Lam Nguyen · Redmond, US
• Rostislav Sudakov · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 2021
• Grant date: Feb 13, 2024
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2209/505
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A cloud computing capacity management system can include a fine-grained admission control layer, a policy engine, and an enforcement layer. The fine-grained admission control layer can be configured to ingest capacity signals and create a capacity mitigation policy, based at least in part on the capacity signals, to protect available capacity of a cloud computing system for prioritized users. The capacity mitigation policy can be directed to users of the cloud computing system. The policy engine can be configured to control how the capacity mitigation policy is applied to the cloud computing system. The enforcement layer can be configured to handle incoming resource requests and to enforce resource limits based on the capacity mitigation policy as applied by the policy engine.