Application-based computing resource management

• US 10,083,054 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Thomas, Nathan Bartholomew, Koushik, Sheshadri Supreeth, Lin, Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Bing
• Application Number:
  US14/981,774
• Publication Number:
  US 20170185438A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation

Abstract

Computing resources are provided to a user by identifying applications used by the user, and provisioning virtual computing resources that are adapted to the resource requirements of the identified applications. The resource requirements of the identified applications can be combined into a single set of resource requirements and used to acquire a virtual machine that is able to host the identified applications. In other examples, virtual machines may be acquired for each identified application. Each virtual machine generates a display stream via a streaming agent. The display stream is received by an application streaming client on the user'"'"'s client computer system, and is displayed to the user on a client display. Multiple virtual machines may generate multiple display streams which can be combined by the application streaming client and presented to the user on the single client display.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,

identifying a set of application programs that are associated with a user identity;

acquiring a set of application program profiles by retrieving an application program profile for each application program in the set of application programs, the application program profile for each application program indicating a set of computing resource requirements for executing each respective application program;

generating a virtual machine profile based at least in part on combining computing resource requirements described by the set of application program profiles, wherein combining the resource requirements comprises summing computing resource requirements of the set of application programs when the set of application programs is anticipated to be run concurrently, and comprises identifying maximum resource requirements of the set of application programs when the set of application programs is anticipated to be run sequentially;

creating a virtual machine with a configuration of computing resources that satisfies the virtual machine profile;

installing the set of application programs on the virtual machine;

launching at least one application from the set of application programs; and

causing a streaming connection to be established between the virtual machine and a client computer system, the streaming connection transmitting encoded display information from the virtual machine to the client computer system.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising selecting, from a set of virtual machine profile templates, a profile template based at least in part on the virtual machine profile, wherein:

the set of virtual machine profile templates being associated with virtual machine configurations that are supportable by a computing resource service provider; and

the virtual machine is configured in accordance with the profile template.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the set of application programs that are associated with the user identity is accomplished at least in part by:

retrieving application usage information from the client computer system;

identifying a particular application program that has been run using the user identity on the client computer system; and

adding the particular application program to the set of application programs.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a second set of application programs that may be run concurrently;

generating a combined resource profile for the second set of application programs; and

modifying the virtual machine profile based at least in part on the combined resource profile.

5. A system, comprising at least one computing device that implements one or more services, wherein the one or more services:

identify a set of application programs associated with a user identity;

acquire a set of application program profiles for each application program in the set of application programs, the application program profile for each application program indicating a set of computing resource requirements for executing each respective application program;

generate a virtual machine profile based at least in part on a combination of computing resource requirements described by the set of application program profiles, wherein the combination comprises summing computing resource requirements of the set of application programs when the set of application programs is anticipated to be run concurrently, and comprises identifying maximum resource requirements of the set of application programs when the set of application programs is anticipated to be run sequentially;

allocate a virtual machine with a configuration that is based at least in part on the virtual machine profile;

install the set of application programs on the virtual machine;

execute at least one of the set of application programs on the virtual machine; and

establish a connection between the virtual machine and a client computer system that transmits display information associated with at least one of the set of application programs to the client computer system.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein:

the display information is encoded with a resolution and a framerate adapted to an amount of network bandwidth available to the client computer system; and

the display information includes audio information encoded with characteristics based at least in part on audio playback facilities associated with the client computer system.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the display information is encoded with a resolution and a framerate adapted to at least one of the set of application programs.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more services allocate the virtual machine by at least in part selecting a virtual machine from a pool of available virtual machines running on a host computer system.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more services further:

receive an additional request to provide an additional application to the client computer system;

determine an additional virtual machine profile based at least in part on resource requirements associated with the additional application;

allocate an additional virtual machine based at least in part on the additional virtual machine profile;

execute the additional application on the additional virtual machine; and

establish an additional connection between the additional virtual machine and the client computer system that transmits display information associated with the additional application to the client computer system.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more services further:

receive a request to provide at least one of the set of application programs to an additional client computer system;

generate an additional application session for the at least one of the set of application programs running on the virtual machine; and

establish an additional connection between the additional application session on the virtual machine and the client computer system that transmits display information associated with the additional application session to the client computer system.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the display information associated with the additional application session is provided at least in part from the display information associated with the application session.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more services further:

receive viewport information that identifies a portion of the display information that is not visible on the client computer system; and

exclude the portion of the display information from the display information that is transmitted to the client computer system.