Patent ID: 9694281
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. One or more computer-storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device having a processor, cause the computing device to manage multimode gaming servers within a data center, the instruction causing the computing device to: set more than 50% of a plurality of multimode gaming servers in a game mode, each multimode gaming server having a central processing unit (“CPU”), a graphics processing unit (“GPU”), and a video encoder; monitor demand for gaming in a data center unit comprising the plurality of multimode gaming servers; determine, at the computing device, when demand for gaming falls below a threshold by analyzing a rate of requests for new game sessions; upon said determining, transition a subset of the plurality of multimode gaming servers from the game mode to a video render mode; and assign a video render job to a multimode game server in the subset of the plurality of multimode gaming servers.