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Burst throttling for multi-tenant storage services

US9703602B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 2015
Grant dateJul 11, 2017
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02D10/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Burst throttling methods may be used manage computing resources of a data storage service. Tokens may represent I/O operations executed by a customer of the data storage service. A global token bucket may contain a set of tokens representing the overall I/O operation capacity of the data storage service. Additionally, a work token bucket may contain a set of tokens for a given logical volume maintained by the data storage service. When I/O request are received tokens may be charged the global token bucket and the work token bucket. Furthermore, if there is sufficient capacity the data storage service may charge a reduced number of tokens to the work token bucket.

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