Patent ID: 9575781
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: transmitting a request from a physical host device to monitor at least one virtual machine among a plurality of virtual machines currently operating in a virtual communication system; determining which of the plurality of virtual machines are actively accessing a predetermined virtual application; receiving present operating activity results regarding the plurality of virtual machines responsive to the transmitted request; monitoring the at least one virtual machine for a predetermined period of time to identify a specific interaction level of memory access operations performed during the predetermined period of time and identified during an interaction between the at least one virtual machine and the predetermined virtual application; intercepting network traffic signals associated with the at least one virtual machine during the memory access operations; and creating a memory usage profile for the virtual machine based on the predetermined period of time and the network traffic signals; wherein the present operating activity results comprises a particular host communicating with one or more of the plurality of virtual machines and transferring a type of connection established with the plurality of virtual machines, a duration of the connection, a number of packets transferred, an origination source address, and a storage destination address.