COMPUTING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• US 20170185438A1
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Published: 06/29/2017
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,083,054 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 resource profiles by retrieving a resource profile for each application program in the set of application programs;

generating a virtual machine profile based at least in part on the set of application resource profiles;

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 non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, as a result of being executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to at least:

send, to a computing resource service provider, a request to use a first application, the request to use the first application causing the computing resource service provider to provision a first virtual machine, the first virtual machine configured based at least in part on computing resource requirements of the first application;

receive, using an application streaming client, a first stream of encoded display information from the first virtual machine;

send, to a computing resource service provider, a request to use a second application, the request to use the second application causing the computing resource service provider to provision a second virtual machine, the second virtual machine configured based at least in part on computing resource requirements of the second application;

receive, using the application streaming client, a second stream of encoded display information from the second virtual machine;

combine the first stream of encoded display information and the second stream of encoded display information to produce a combined user interface for the first application and the second application; and

present the combined user interface on a display connected to the computer system.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that, as a result of being executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to:

identify at least a portion the first stream of encoded display information that is not visible on the user interface; and

send viewport information to the computing resource service provider that describes the portion of the first stream.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that, as a result of being executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to:

determine that network connectivity to the computing resource service provider has been lost; and

as a result of having determined that network connectivity has been lost, cause the computing resource service provider to deallocate the virtual machine.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the combined user interface includes a first window that displays encoded display information from the first virtual machine and a second window that displays encoded display information from the second virtual machine.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that, as a result of being executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to:

encode user input from one or more devices that are connected to the computer system into an input stream; and

transmit the input stream to the computing resource service provider.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the one or more devices includes one or more of a keyboard, a mouse, a 3-D mouse, a microphone, and a camera.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the one or more services includes a Web browser configured with a virtual machine manager that controls provisioning of virtual machines by the computing resource service provider and an application stream stitcher that receives and integrates the streams of encoded display information into the user interface.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 wherein:

the first stream of encoded display information includes audio information that is produced by the first application;

the second stream of encoded display information includes audio information that is produced by the second application; and

the user interface includes audio information from the first application and the second application.

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

receive a request, from a client computer system, to provide an application;

select a virtual machine profile from a set of virtual machine profiles based at least in part on resource requirements associated with the application;

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

execute the application on the virtual machine; and

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

14. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the display information is encoded with a resolution and a frame rate 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.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the display information is encoded with a resolution and a frame rate adapted to the application.

16. The system of claim 13, 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.

17. The system of claim 13, 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.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more services further:

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

generate an additional application session for the application running on the virtual machine; and

establish an additional connection between 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.

19. The system of claim 18, 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.

20. The system of claim 13, 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.