Patents by Inventor Robert Bitterfeld

Robert Bitterfeld 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).

  • Patent number: 11908466
    Abstract: One or more parameters of one or more processes identified as belonging to a specific process grouping among a plurality of process groupings are obtained. Eligible token words in the one or more parameters are identified. The eligible token words are processed to select a subset within the eligible token words that are likely descriptive of the specific process grouping. The selected subset within the eligible token words is utilized to determine a descriptive identifier associated with the specific process grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Garty, Robert Bitterfeld
  • Publication number: 20240048629
    Abstract: A computing system includes persistent storage configured to store representations of software applications installed on computing devices, and a software application configured to perform operations, including retrieving, from the persistent storage, a first plurality of representations of a first plurality of software applications installed on a particular computing device and a second plurality of representations of a second plurality of software applications installed on a reference computing device. The operations also include determining a device fingerprint of the particular computing device based on the first plurality of representations and a reference device fingerprint of the reference computing device based on the second plurality of representations, and comparing the device fingerprint to the reference device fingerprint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shay Herzog, Aakash Umeshbhai Bhagat, Olga Zateikin, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty
  • Patent number: 11831729
    Abstract: A computing system includes persistent storage configured to store representations of software applications installed on computing devices, and a software application configured to perform operations, including retrieving, from the persistent storage, a first plurality of representations of a first plurality of software applications installed on a particular computing device and a second plurality of representations of a second plurality of software applications installed on a reference computing device. The operations also include determining a device fingerprint of the particular computing device based on the first plurality of representations and a reference device fingerprint of the reference computing device based on the second plurality of representations, and comparing the device fingerprint to the reference device fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Shay Herzog, Aakash Umeshbhai Bhagat, Olga Zateikin, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty
  • Patent number: 11695641
    Abstract: A mock server implementation for discovery applications is provided. A computing system includes a mock server, which receives a client request from a mock client on a discovery server. The client request corresponds to a user query associated with a discovery of resources on a remote computing system. The mock server determines a first response from a mock response dataset. The first response to the client request is determined based on the received client request. The mock response dataset includes a set of responses associated with a sequence of operations executed in the past for the discovery of resources on the remote computing system. The mock server transmits the determined first response to the mock client on the discovery server. The mock client receives the transmitted first response and sends the received first response to a discovery application interface on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Robert Bitterfeld, Venkatesh Ainalli, Aviya Aron, Naveen Kumar HR
  • Patent number: 11645309
    Abstract: A computing system includes a database and a discovery application. The discovery application obtains credentials for accessing a server hosting a software bus application which connects a plurality of applications within a managed network. The discovery application selects, based on a pattern corresponding to the software bus application, one or more files to access, transmits, to the server, instructions to access the one or more files, and receives therefrom data identifying a plurality of attributes of the software bus application. Based on this data, the discovery application transmits, to the server, instructions to identify communicative connections established between the plurality of software applications by way of the software bus application and receives therefrom data identifying the communicative connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Noam Biran, Hail Tal, Aviya Aron, Robert Bitterfeld, Boris Erblat, Bary Solomon
  • Patent number: 11641406
    Abstract: A computing system includes a database and a discovery application that initiates discovery of software applications within a managed network by probing the computing devices for applications in stalled thereon. The discovery application executes discovery patterns in an attempt to classify a discovered application and determines that the discovered application is unclassified after executing the discovery patterns. In response to determining that the discovered application is unclassified, the discovery application (i) generates a configuration item representing the discovered application without classification and (ii) selects a characteristic file containing attributes of the discovered application. The discovery application provides the characteristic file to a machine learning (ML) classifier trained using a plurality of characteristic files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Aviya Aron, Boris Erblat, Hail Tal, Bary Solomon
  • Patent number: 11632303
    Abstract: A computing system includes persistent storage configured to store representations of software applications that include textual data respectively indicative of attributes of the software applications, and a mapping application configured to perform operations. The operations include retrieving a representation corresponding to a software application and, based thereon, identifying character strings present within textual data associated therewith. The operations also include generating, for each character string, a corresponding weight based on a frequency of the character string within the particular textual data and a frequency of the character string within textual data associated with at least a subset of the software applications. The operations additionally include selecting, from the character strings and based on the corresponding weights, candidate tags for the particular software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc
    Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty
  • Patent number: 11611489
    Abstract: A computing system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform that manages a managed network, and a software application associated with the platform and configured to: obtain, from an external computing system, information about a function-application arranged to execute source code segment(s) on demand; determine that the obtained information relates to (i) a plurality of authorization-keys each respectively arranged to authorize on-demand execution of one of the source code segments, (ii) a first key-value string pair that enables establishment of connectivity to a service of the external computing system or of another computing system, and/or (iii) a second key-value string pair that enables establishment of connectivity to a data source of the external computing system or of another computing system, and responsively determine association(s) between the source code segment(s), the function-application, the service, and/or the data source; and store the association(s) in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Noam Biran, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Bary Solomon
  • Patent number: 11582106
    Abstract: A discovery computing system may receive an account identifier (ID) and a set of credentials required to access a first service account. The discovery computing system may transmit a first API query to a remote computing system. The discovery computing system may receive an organization identifier (ID) of the organization from the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may further transmit a second API query to the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may be further configured to receive information about a set of projects, in the organization, from the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may further generate a set of service accounts and further determine the set of resources, in the remote computing system, associated with each of the generated set of service accounts. The discovery computing system may further store the determined set of resources, as configuration items in a persistent storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiri Hameiri, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Shay Herzog, Sreenevas Subramaniam
  • Patent number: 11520831
    Abstract: A regular expression that is able to be used to identify an item as belonging to a specific group among a plurality of different groups is determined. The regular expression is tested against a sampling of items known to belong to the specific group to determine a true positive metric. The regular expression is tested against a sampling of items known to belong to other groups among the plurality of different groups outside the specific group to determine a false positive metric. An accuracy metric of the determined regular expression is calculated based at least in part on the true positive metric and the false positive metric. The accuracy metric is provided for use in evaluating the regular expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Garty, Robert Bitterfeld
  • Patent number: 11463323
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques for identifying and classifying processes and associated applications executing in a network. All processes executing in a network may be identified using a discovery process. The processes may be clustered based on associations between the processes. Suggested application entries may then be generated based at least in part on the clusters of processes. A configuration item type and a discovery pattern may be generated for each suggested application entry. A subsequent discovery process may use the configuration item type and discovery patterns to identify associated configuration items in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Hail Tal, Yuval Rimar, Qingbin Li, Leonid Suslov, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Sreenevas Subramaniam
  • Patent number: 11461673
    Abstract: A system may include persistent storage configured to store: a shared classification model including a plurality of classifiers based on training data from a plurality of managed networks, and a representation of a plurality of software applications executable computing devices within a particular managed network. The system may also include a discovery application configured to perform operations including obtaining attributes of a software process. The operations may also include determining, by way of the shared classification model and based on the attributes, a suggested classifier of the plurality of classifiers and determining, by way of the suggested classifier and based on the attributes, a suggested classification for the software process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Aviya Aron, Asaf Garty, Bary Solomon
  • Publication number: 20220303352
    Abstract: A computing system includes persistent storage configured to store representations of software applications installed on computing devices, and a software application configured to perform operations, including retrieving, from the persistent storage, a first plurality of representations of a first plurality of software applications installed on a particular computing device and a second plurality of representations of a second plurality of software applications installed on a reference computing device. The operations also include determining a device fingerprint of the particular computing device based on the first plurality of representations and a reference device fingerprint of the reference computing device based on the second plurality of representations, and comparing the device fingerprint to the reference device fingerprint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Shay Herzog, Aakash Umeshbhai Bhagat, Olga Zateikin, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty
  • Patent number: 11381448
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for synchronizing updates. A first cloud-based system may be embodied in a multi-instance or multi-tenant framework, and may provide for certain computing systems and configuration items. The first cloud-based system may include a probe system configured to retrieve a list of events from a second cloud computing system, wherein the list of events is representative of updates to resources provided by the second cloud computing system. The first cloud-based system may additionally include a sensor system configured to process the list of events to retrieve a payload for each event in the list of events. An update system may then update an updatable system included in the first cloud computing system based on the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc .
    Inventors: Boris Erblat, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Shiri Hameiri, Alexandra Feiguine
  • Patent number: 11316746
    Abstract: Identifications of program processes executing on an information technology environment are received. The identified program processes are clustered into a plurality of different groups. Identifications of interactions between at least a portion of the program processes are received. The identified interactions are analyzed to determine one or more interaction metrics between different group pairs in the plurality of different groups. A graph representation that includes at least a portion of the plurality of different groups as graph nodes in the graph representation is generated. The graph representation includes one or more graph edges determined to be included based on the one or more interaction metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Dinesh Kumar Kishorkumar Surapaneni, Asaf Garty, Baskar Jayaraman
  • Publication number: 20220123999
    Abstract: A mock server implementation for discovery applications is provided. A computing system includes a mock server, which receives a client request from a mock client on a discovery server. The client request corresponds to a user query associated with a discovery of resources on a remote computing system. The mock server determines a first response from a mock response dataset. The first response to the client request is determined based on the received client request. The mock response dataset includes a set of responses associated with a sequence of operations executed in the past for the discovery of resources on the remote computing system. The mock server transmits the determined first response to the mock client on the discovery server. The mock client receives the transmitted first response and sends the received first response to a discovery application interface on a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Robert Bitterfeld, Venkatesh Ainalli, Aviya Aron, Naveen Kumar HR
  • Publication number: 20220109611
    Abstract: A computing system includes persistent storage configured to store representations of software applications that include textual data respectively indicative of attributes of the software applications, and a mapping application configured to perform operations. The operations include retrieving a representation corresponding to a software application and, based thereon, identifying character strings present within textual data associated therewith. The operations also include generating, for each character string, a corresponding weight based on a frequency of the character string within the particular textual data and a frequency of the character string within textual data associated with at least a subset of the software applications. The operations additionally include selecting, from the character strings and based on the corresponding weights, candidate tags for the particular software application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty
  • Patent number: 11283681
    Abstract: A computing system includes a discovery application that identifies a computing device associated with a managed network. The application determines a first command that causes the computing device to invoke a function that provides as output attributes of the computing device. The command includes a parameter that suppresses any textual error messages that the function places in the output. The application also determines a second command that causes the computing device to provide a numerical exit status of the function. The application causes the computing device to execute the first and second commands, and obtains the output and the numerical exit status. Based on the numerical exit status, the application determines that the function did not fully obtain the attributes of the computing device and, in response, (i) modifies the first command, and (ii) causes the computing device to execute the first command as modified and the second command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Bary Solomon, Daniel Badyan
  • Patent number: 11263201
    Abstract: An example system includes persistent storage and a discovery application configured to perform operations including obtaining a uniform resource locator (URL) that addresses a function of an application programming interface (API) provided by a remote computing system of remote computing systems that provide computing resources. The function returns attributes of computing resources specified by the URL. The operations additionally include generating (i) a system-specific portion of a request that invokes execution of the function and (ii) a system-invariant portion of the request. The system-specific portion adheres to first rules adopted by the remote computing system for interacting with the API. The system-invariant portion adheres to second rules adopted by each of the remote computing systems for interacting with respective APIs thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Robert Bitterfeld, Boris Erblat, Aviya Aron, Asaf Garty, Daniel Badyan, Hail Tal
  • Patent number: 11245591
    Abstract: A mock server implementation for discovery applications is provided. A computing system includes a mock server, which receives a client request from a mock client on a discovery server. The client request corresponds to a user query associated with a discovery of resources on a remote computing system. The mock server determines a first response from a mock response dataset. The first response to the client request is determined based on the received client request. The mock response dataset includes a set of responses associated with a sequence of operations executed in the past for the discovery of resources on the remote computing system. The mock server transmits the determined first response to the mock client on the discovery server. The mock client receives the transmitted first response and sends the received first response to a discovery application interface on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Robert Bitterfeld, Venkatesh Ainalli, Aviya Aron, Naveen Kumar HR