Multicast routing through multi-tier edge gateways
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11652748
A method of transmitting multicast traffic to workloads of tenants communicating over overlay networks provisioned on top of a physical network includes the steps of: detecting the multicast traffic; determining that the multicast traffic is bound for workloads of a first tenant and workloads of a second tenant; encapsulating one instance of the multicast traffic using a Layer 2 (L2) over Layer 3 (L3) encapsulation protocol to generate encapsulated traffic, wherein the encapsulated…
Simulation-based cross-cloud connectivity checks
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11652717
Example methods and systems are provided for simulation-based cross-cloud connectivity checks. One example method may include injecting a connectivity check packet in a first cloud environment, and obtaining first report information associated with a first stage of forwarding the connectivity check packet from one or more first observation points in the first cloud environment. The method may also comprise: based on configuration information associated with one or more second observation…
Methods for identifying a source location in a service chaining topology
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11652666
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides mechanisms for identifying a source location in a service chaining topology. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a query, from a service plane implementation module executing on a host of a service virtual machine (“SVM”), for a location of a source host implementing a guest virtual machine (“source GVM”) that originated a packet in a computer network and that serviced the packet; in response to receiving the…
Contextual automated device onboarding
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11652632
Examples described herein include systems and methods for contextually providing automated device enrollment into a management system. A management application on a user device can receive network settings for connecting to a local server. The network settings can be preconfigured by an administrator. The management application can cause the user device to send an enrollment request and a device identifier to the local server. The device identifier can be used to validate the device and…
Augmented reality based image protection in enterprise settings
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11651527
Disclosed are various examples for augmented reality based image protection in enterprise settings. In one example, a managed camera application can generate an artificial reality based camera user interface using image data from a field of view of a camera. An indoor position can be identified using global positioning system (GPS) and indoor positioning data. A sector of the field of view can be identified as a protected image area that depicts a protected or confidential object, and…
Multi-persona enrollment management
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11651101
Examples of multi-persona account management in client devices are described. A client device can host a personal workspace, such as for personal data and applications of a user, along with a separate alternate persona workspace for work-related data and applications of the user. The client device interfaces with a management computing environment to enroll in device management services and establish the alternate persona workspace on the client device. In one example, the client device…
Intelligent workflows on a user device
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11651054
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing a workflow on a user device. A user device can receive image data from a camera of the user device. The device can perform object recognition to recognize an object from the image data, as well as classification of the object. The user device can match the object classification with a backend system. The example method can also include launching a workflow form associated with the matching backend system. The user device…
Methods and systems to predict parameters in a database of information technology equipment
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11651050
Methods and systems predict parameters in a dataset of an identified piece of (“information technology”) IT equipment. An automated method identifies datasets IT equipment in a same category of IT equipment as a piece of IT equipment identified as having incomplete dataset information. Each dataset of IT equipment parameters is used to construct generalized linear models of different classes of IT equipment within the category of IT equipment. The class of the identified IT equipment…
Concealing internal applications that are accessed over a network
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11647003
Examples herein describe systems and methods for concealing internal applications that are accessed over the internet. A user device can select a remote internal application to access using a client. The user device can send an access request to an open listening port of an access server. The access server can be a gateway and proxy to the internal application, which can reside elsewhere. The access server can open a different randomized access port for establishing the connection by…
Deploying an application in multiple cloud computing environments
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11647101
An example method is provided to deploy an application in multiple cloud computing environments. The method may comprise a computing system generating a first request to deploy an application in a first cloud computing environment according to a first deployment plan and a second request to deploy the application in a second cloud computing environment according to a second deployment plan. The method may comprise selecting, from multiple communication components configured on the…
Software-defined storage information in view of available hardware resources
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11644975
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to generate user interfaces to indicate software-defined storage information in view of available hardware resources. In one example, a user interface service may obtain enclosure information associated with enclosures in a computing environment and may determine a storage overview for the plurality of enclosures based on the enclosure information. The user interface service may further determine a function for each storage device in…
Quantizing training data sets using ML model metadata
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645587
Techniques for quantizing training data sets using machine learning (ML) model metadata are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a training data set comprising a plurality of features and a plurality of data instances, where each data instance includes a feature value for each of the plurality of features. The computer system can further train a machine learning (ML) model using the training data set, where the training results in a trained version of the ML…
Machine learning-based techniques for representing computing processes as vectors
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645539
Machine learning-based techniques for representing computing processes as vectors are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a name of a computing process and context information pertaining to the computing process. The computer system can further train a neural network based on the name and the context information, where the training results in determination of weight values for one or more hidden layers of the neural network. The computer system can then…
Providing models to client devices
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645507
Various examples for providing neural network models to client devices are described. A management application can cause a training environment to be created for training a neural network using enterprise data authorized by a client device. The management application can cause the client device to send the enterprise data to the training environment. The management application can cause a training application running in the training environment to create a neural network model using the…
Secured interprocess communication
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645400
The present disclosure describes secured interprocess communication (IPC). The operating system traps application-level IPC calls to an IPC agent, which handles the IPC call. The IPC agent executes in a trusted execution environment so that communications between the applications involved in the IPC are secure. Since processing of IPC by the IPC agent bypasses the operating system, IPC remains secure despite any attacks against the operating system code.
Cloud-based method to increase integrity of a next generation antivirus (NGAV) security solution in a virtualized computing environment
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645390
A next generation antivirus (NGAV) security solution in a virtualized computing environment includes a security sensor at a virtual machine that runs on a host and a security engine remote from the host. The integrity of the NGAV security solution is increased, by providing a verification as to whether a verdict issued by the security engine has been successfully enforced by the security sensor to prevent execution of malicious code at the virtual machine.
Review process for evaluating changes to target code for a software-based product
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645191
Systems and methods can implement a review process to evaluate changes to target code as part of development cycles for a continuous integration, continuous deployment pipeline for software-based products. The system can aggregate data and determine if the target code has been modified preliminarily and then intelligently determine where further review is needed before the changes are permanently implemented. To do this, a changeset including the preliminarily changed target code can be…
Automated rollback in virtualized computing environments
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645158
A rollback can be performed after completing an upgrade to components of a virtualized computing environment. When the upgrade is performed, an upgrade bundle having rollback scripts is provided to edges, hosts, and managers in the virtualized computing environment that are to be upgraded. When a rollback is to be performed, the rollback scripts are executed, and the components are rolled back in a reverse order relative to their upgrade order. Data and configuration checking are…
Methods and systems securing an application based on auto-learning and auto-mapping of application services and APIs
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645144
A computerized method for securing an application based on auto-learning and auto-mapping of application services and application programming interfaces (APIs), includes the step of providing a distributed application security mesh system. The method includes the step of implementing a learning mode of the distributed application security mesh system. This includes learning a set of services and a set of APIs that are used by the set of services to interact with each other. The service…
Global cache for container images in a clustered container host system
Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number:
11645100
Container images are managed in a clustered container host system with a shared storage device. Hosts of the system include a virtualization software layer that supports execution of virtual machines (VMs) in the hosts, and one or more VMs have implemented therein a container engine that supports execution of containers within the respective VMs. Deploying a container in a first VM includes creating a virtual disk in the storage device, storing a container image in the virtual disk,…
