Patent ID: 9270781
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-accessible storage medium storing program instructions executable to implement: associating a first virtual machine with a first user on an exclusive basis, wherein the first virtual machine is one of a plurality of virtual machines in a server computer system, wherein said associating comprises storing information indicating that users other than the first user cannot use the first virtual machine, wherein the plurality of virtual machines comprises a pool of active but unconnected virtual machines, wherein the size of the pool is at least one, and wherein the maximum pool size is N; receiving a first request from a client device of the first user to connect to the server computer system, wherein the first request identifies the first user; in response to the first request: in response to determining that the first virtual machine is associated with the first user on the exclusive basis: