Back to results
US 2023/0401102 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for providing data center functions for support of an electric vehicle based data center
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsJoel Richard Goergen, Kameron Rose Hurst
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a plurality of servers located in a plurality of electric vehicles, associating the servers with an electric vehicle based cloud data center, allocating resources to the servers in the electric vehicle based cloud data center to perform data center functions, and managing the servers in the electric vehicle based cloud data center.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of servers located in a plurality of electric vehicles;
- associating said plurality of servers with an electric vehicle based cloud data center;
- allocating resources to said plurality of servers in the electric vehicle based cloud data center to perform data center functions, wherein allocating resources comprises calculating a percentage of the resources to allocate to said plurality of servers in a zone of a plurality of zones, wherein calculating said percentage of resources takes into account an overlap of the zone with other zones of the plurality of zones;
- and
- managing said plurality of servers in the electric vehicle based cloud data center.
2 more elements
A method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of servers located in a plurality of electric vehicles;
- associating said plurality of servers with an electric vehicle based cloud data center;
- allocating resources to said plurality of servers in the electric vehicle based cloud data center to perform data center functions;
- and
- managing said plurality of servers in the electric vehicle based cloud data center, wherein managing said plurality of servers comprises managing the servers within a zone of a plurality of zones at a zone cloud manager and coordinating data handoff between said plurality of servers in different zones of the plurality of zones at a regional cloud manager.
2 more elements
A server appliance comprising:
- a plurality of servers;
- a router in communication with said plurality of servers;
- an electrical interface for receiving power from an electric vehicle battery;
- and
- a wireless interface for communication with an electric vehicle based cloud data center in which the servers are configured to operate,
- wherein the server appliance is configured for mounting in an electric vehicle and the electric vehicle based cloud data center comprises a plurality of electric vehicle servers mounted in a plurality of electric vehicles,
- wherein resources are allocated to said plurality of servers of the server appliance to perform data center functions, and said plurality of electric vehicle servers are managed by a server appliance cloud management system in the electric vehicle based cloud data center.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.