Patent ID: 9668082
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a request to provision a first virtual machine (VM) in view of a mobile communications device; receiving a hardware requirement of the mobile communications device; allocating, in response to the request to provision the first VM, a phone number to be associated with the first VM in view of the mobile communications device; provisioning, by a processing device, the first VM in view of the hardware requirement of the mobile communications device and the allocated phone number; determining whether a communications usage for the first VM in view of the allocated phone number exceeds a threshold amount of usage; in response to determining that the communications usage for the VM in view of the allocated phone number exceeds the threshold amount of usage, disabling a functionality of the first VM; and determining a cost corresponding to the first VM in view of the communications usage associated with the allocated phone number and hardware usage associated with provisioning the first VM in view of the disabling of the functionality of the first VM.