DISTRIBUTED BRIDGING BETWEEN HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE-DEFINED OVERLAYS
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250133019
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a network to bridge data messages between a hardware-implemented L2 overlay network segment and a software-implemented L2 overlay network segment. The method identifies a host computer on which a logical network endpoint connected to the software-implemented overlay executes. The hardware-implemented L2 overlay connects at least a first set of network endpoints located in a first physical network zone and connected to a first L2 network…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPLICATION DISCOVERY FROM LOG MESSAGES
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250130871
This disclosure is directed to automated computer-implemented methods for application discovery from log messages generated by event sources of applications executing in a cloud infrastructure. The methods are executed by an operations manager that constructs a data frame of probability distributions of event types of the log messages generated by the event sources in a time period. The operations manager executes clustering techniques that are used to form clusters of the probability…
PROVISIONING CLOUD-AGNOSTIC RESOURCE INSTANCES BY SHARING CLOUD RESOURCES
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250130863
provisioning cloud-agnostic resource instances by sharing cloud resources is described herein. One example method includes creating a blueprint using a development platform, wherein the blueprint includes a definition of a resource, and wherein provisioning the resource includes provisioning a first cloud resource and a second cloud resource provided by a cloud provider, provisioning a first instance of the resource of the blueprint by provisioning a first instance of the first cloud…
CLOUD SCHEDULER
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250130851
The present disclosure is related to devices, systems, and methods for a cloud scheduler. An example method can include receiving a schedule associated with an automation task to be performed in a virtualized environment via a REST API, wherein the task is associated with a target, associating the schedule with a partition, storing the schedule in a cache store responsive to determining that the schedule is to be invoked within a threshold time period, and receiving the schedule from the…
ASYNCHRONOUS MECHANISM FOR PROCESSING SYNCHRONOUS OPERATION FLOWS
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250130831
An asynchronous mechanism for processing synchronous operation flows is described herein. One example method includes receiving a request from an orchestrator engine to determine a state of a cloud resource of a cloud automation platform, propagating the request to the cloud automation platform, caching a task identifier received from the cloud automation platform responsive to the request, receiving data indicative of the state of the cloud resource from the cloud automation platform…
MANAGING CLOUD SNAPSHOTS IN A DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250130830
Managing cloud snapshots in a development platform is described herein. One example method includes creating a snapshot of a virtual computing instance (VCI), provided by a cloud provider, using a development platform, receiving a request to revert to the snapshot, and performing a revert operation responsive to receiving the request. The revert operation can include creating a new boot disk on the cloud provider to replace a current boot disk in the development platform, creating a new…
CLONING A CLOUD-AGNOSTIC DEPLOYMENT
Granted: April 24, 2025
Application Number:
20250130786
Cloning a cloud-agnostic deployment is described herein. One example method includes receiving modifications to an existing deployment created using a blueprint in a virtualized environment, and performing a deployment clone operation responsive to receiving a request to clone the deployment. The deployment clone operation can include creating an image associated with a virtual computing instance (VCI) of the deployment, creating a snapshot associated with a disk of the deployment,…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE USING ARTIFICIAL-LIFE AGENTS
Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number:
20250126026
The current document is directed to distributed-computer-systems and, in particular, to management of distributed applications and cloud infrastructure using artificial-life agents. The artificial-life agents are organized into a population, the size of which is stabilized as individual artificial-life agents predict system-control parameters, receive rewards based on the predictions, thrive and propagate as they learn to provide better predictions while adapting to a constantly changing…
RAN APPLICATION FOR INTERFERENCE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number:
20250125892
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for an interference detection RAN application deployed across one or more RICs for detecting and identifying external interference in a RAN that includes multiple RAN base stations servicing users located across multiple regions, each region including at least one RAN base station. The method is performed for a particular region serviced by a particular RAN base station. The method detects an interference incident associated with the…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING APPLICATION DIAGNOSTICS VIA DISTRIBUTED TRACING WITH ENHANCED OBSERVABILITY
Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number:
20250123942
Methods and systems are directed to performing application diagnostics via distributed tracing with enhanced observability. Methods are executed by an operations manager that collects spans of microservices of a distributed application executing in a cloud infrastructure. The operations manager forms traces from the spans for each request for services from the application. The operations manager reduces the dimensionality of the traces by generating a behavioral map of points in a…
CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT USING SHARED CERTIFICATE IN GLOBAL SERVER LOAD BALANCING (GSLB) ENVIRONMENT
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250119418
Example methods and systems for connection establishment in a global server load balancer (GSLB) environment are described. In one example, a computer system may establish a first connection with a first entity and a second connection with the second entity. The first connection may be established based on first parameter information that includes a shared certificate and a first identifier (ID). The second connection may be established based on second parameter information that includes…
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AS A SERVICE (SREAAS) FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number:
20250117236
Site reliability engineering (SRE) may be provided as a service to software products, such as an on-premises software product residing at a first computing environment. A SRE service site may be hosted at a second computing environment that is remote and separate from the first computing environment. A SRE agent resides at the first computing environment to monitor the software product, and provides information, such as metric data or log information pertaining to the software product,…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROACTIVE PROBLEM TROUBLESHOOTING AND RESOLUTION IN A CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250111251
Automated computer-implemented methods and systems for troubleshooting and resolving problems with objects of a cloud infrastructure are described herein. In response to detecting abnormal behavior of an object running in the cloud infrastructure based on a key performance indicator (“KPI”) of the object, a graphical user interface (“GUI”) is displayed to enable a user to select KPIs of components of the object. For each of the components, a separate rule learning engine is…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED SUSTAINABILITY AND MANAGEMENT OF A CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250103598
Automated computer-implemented methods and systems for automated detection and termination of idle objects executing in a cloud infrastructure. The methods and systems learn rules from previous instances in which the object was terminated based on log messages associated with the previous instances. The rules are used to perform real time detection of idle instances of the object and, in response, terminate the object.
CARDINALITY-BASED INDEX CACHING OF TIME SERIES DATA
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250103594
In a computer-implemented method for cardinality-based index caching of time series data, a cardinality of an index of a time series data monitoring system is determined. The cardinality of the index is compared to a cardinality threshold. Responsive to determining that the cardinality of the index exceeds the cardinality threshold, the index is cached in a local memory cache of a query node of the times series data monitoring system. Responsive to determining that the cardinality of the…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING AND PROVISIONING VIRTUAL DATA STORAGE
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250103368
This disclosure is directed to automated computer-implemented methods and systems for optimizing and provisioning virtual data storage of virtual machines in a data center. The methods and systems attach virtual disks to virtual machines on the same datastore of the VMs. The methods and systems adjust storage space of the VDs based on storage space available to the VDs, and retains data stored in the VDs in response to receiving a request to delete the VM and the VD identifies as…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250077254
The current document is directed to a cloud-infrastructure-management service that allows users and upstream management systems to define and deploy infrastructure, such as virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies, within cloud-computing systems. The cloud-infrastructure-management service includes a describe state module that includes a describe function that generates a configuration file that specifies the current state of a target server running a…
RECEIVE SIDE SCALING (RSS) USING PROGRAMMABLE PHYSICAL NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER (PNIC)
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250071062
Example methods and systems for receive side scaling (RSS) are described. In one example, a computer system may generate and send instruction(s) to the programmable physical network interface controller (PNIC) to configure a first flow entry that associates a first packet flow with a first queue and a second flow entry that associates a second packet flow with a second queue. In response to receiving a first packet that is associated with the first packet flow, the programmable PNIC may…
CONFIGURING COMPONENTS OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK TO AUTOMATICALLY DEPLOY AND MONITOR LOGICAL EDGE ROUTERS FOR USERS
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250071021
Some embodiments provide a novel method for configuring components of a software-defined network (SDN) to automatically deploy and monitor a logical edge router for a user. The method configures a policy parser to parse an intent-based Application Programming Interface (API) request to identify a set of attributes for the logical edge router. The method also configures a set of multi-cloud edge orchestrators (1) to use the set of attributes to derive an edge deployment plan specifying a…
ASYMMETRIC ROUTING RESOLUTIONS IN MULTI-REGIONAL LARGE SCALE DEPLOYMENTS WITH DISTRIBUTED GATEWAYS
Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250063470
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for providing asymmetric route resolutions in an SD-WAN. The method is performed at a first edge router at a first site in a first region connected by the SD-WAN. From a first hub router of a first cluster, the method receives a flow sent by a second edge router at a second site in a second region via a first route that points to a next-hop second hub router of a second cluster. The method identifies a default second route from the first…
