Patents by Inventor Michael Fairbanks
Michael Fairbanks has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11170316Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Patent number: 10503914Abstract: Techniques for security auditing of cloud resources are provided. A virtual machine (VM) is captured and isolated when a session indicates that a session with the VM has terminated. Security checks are executed against the VM in the isolated environment. Results from the security checks are then reported.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Michael John Jorgensen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Matthew Holt
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Patent number: 10057113Abstract: Techniques for workload coordination are provided. An automated discovery service identifies resources with hardware and software specific dependencies for a workload. The dependencies are made generic and the workload and its configuration with the generic dependencies are packaged. At a target location, the packaged workload is presented and the generic dependencies automatically resolved with new hardware and software dependencies of the target location. The workload is then automatically populated in the target location.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Micro Focus Software, Inc.Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Jeremy Ray Brown, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael John Jorgensen, Michael Fairbanks, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Publication number: 20180225584Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Patent number: 9965724Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Patent number: 9929921Abstract: Techniques for toxic workload mapping are provided. A state of a target workload is recorded along with a configuration and state of an environment that is processing the workload. Micro valuations are taken, via statistical sampling, for metrics associated with the workload and for different combinations of resources within the environment. The sampling taken at micro second intervals. The valuations are aggregated to form an index representing a toxic mapping for the workload within the environment. The toxic mapping is mined, in view of policy, to provide conditions and scenarios that may be deemed problematic within the workload and/or environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Matthew Holt, Michael John Jorgensen, Michael Fairbanks, Chad Buttars
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Patent number: 9754204Abstract: An example method for controlling an AC electrical machine can include providing a PWM converter operably connected between an electrical power source and the AC electrical machine and providing a neural network vector control system operably connected to the PWM converter. The control system can include a current-loop neural network configured to receive a plurality of inputs. The current-loop neural network can be configured to optimize the compensating dq-control voltage. The inputs can be d- and q-axis currents, d- and q-axis error signals, predicted d- and q-axis current signals, and a feedback compensating dq-control voltage. The d- and q-axis error signals can be a difference between the d- and q-axis currents and reference d- and q-axis currents, respectively. The method can further include outputting a compensating dq-control voltage from the current-loop neural network and controlling the PWM converter using the compensating dq-control voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Board of Trustees of The University of AlabamaInventors: Shuhui Li, Michael Fairbank, Xingang Fu, Donald Wunsch, Eduardo Alonso
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Publication number: 20170208133Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Michael John Jorgensen, Michael Fairbanks, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen
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Publication number: 20170193237Abstract: Techniques for security auditing of cloud resources are provided. A virtual machine (VM) is captured and isolated when a session indicates that a session with the VM has terminated. Security checks are executed against the VM in the isolated environment. Results from the security checks are then reported.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Michael John Jorgensen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Matthew Holt
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Patent number: 9658866Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.Inventors: Michael Jorgensen, Michael Fairbanks, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen
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Patent number: 9619262Abstract: Techniques for security auditing of cloud resources are provided. A virtual machine (VM) is captured and isolated when a session indicates that a session with the VM has terminated. Security checks are executed against the VM in the isolated environment. Results from the security checks are then reported.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Michael John Jorgensen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Matthew Holt
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Patent number: 9088480Abstract: Techniques for auditing and controlling network services are provided. A proxy is interposed between a principal and a network service. Interactions between the principal and the service pass through the proxy. The proxy selectively raises events and evaluates policy based on the interactions for purposes of auditing and controlling the network service.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Publication number: 20150120921Abstract: Techniques for toxic workload mapping are provided. A state of a target workload is recorded along with a configuration and state of an environment that is processing the workload. Micro valuations are taken, via statistical sampling, for metrics associated with the workload and for different combinations of resources within the environment. The sampling taken at micro second intervals. The valuations are aggregated to form an index representing a toxic mapping for the workload within the environment. The toxic mapping is mined, in view of policy, to provide conditions and scenarios that may be deemed problematic within the workload and/or environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2015Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Matthew Holt, Michael John Jorgensen, Michael Fairbanks, Chad Buttars
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Publication number: 20150039545Abstract: An example method for controlling an AC electrical machine can include providing a PWM converter operably connected between an electrical power source and the AC electrical machine and providing a neural network vector control system operably connected to the PWM converter. The control system can include a current-loop neural network configured to receive a plurality of inputs. The current-loop neural network can be configured to optimize the compensating dq-control voltage. The inputs can be d- and q-axis currents, d- and q-axis error signals, predicted d- and q-axis current signals, and a feedback compensating dq-control voltage. The d- and q-axis error signals can be a difference between the d- and q-axis currents and reference d- and q-axis currents, respectively. The method can further include outputting a compensating dq-control voltage from the current-loop neural network and controlling the PWM converter using the compensating dq-control voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicants: City University of London, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Shuhui Li, Michael Fairbank, Xingang Fu, Donald Wunsch, Eduardo Alonso
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Patent number: 8949832Abstract: Techniques for toxic workload mapping are provided. A state of a target workload is recorded along with a configuration and state of an environment that is processing the workload. Micro valuations are taken, via statistical sampling, for metrics associated with the workload and for different combinations of resources within the environment. The sampling taken at micro second intervals. The valuations are aggregated to form an index representing a toxic mapping for the workload within the environment. The toxic mapping is mined, in view of policy, to provide conditions and scenarios that may be deemed problematic within the workload and/or environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Matthew Holt, Michael John Jorgensen, Michael Fairbanks, Chad Buttars
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Publication number: 20140164606Abstract: Techniques for auditing and controlling network services are provided. A proxy is interposed between a principal and a network service. Interactions between the principal and the service pass through the proxy. The proxy selectively raises events and evaluates policy based on the interactions for purposes of auditing and controlling the network service.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Publication number: 20140143200Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Patent number: 8620851Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael Fairbanks, Michael Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Patent number: 8583788Abstract: Techniques for auditing and controlling network services are provided. A proxy is interposed between a principal and a network service. Interactions between the principal and the service pass through the proxy. The proxy selectively raises events and evaluates policy based on the interactions for purposes of auditing and controlling the network service.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
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Publication number: 20130283269Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: Novell, Inc.Inventors: Michael JORGENSEN, Michael Fairbanks, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen