Patents by Inventor Ron Passerini
Ron Passerini 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: 11122053Abstract: An example method for assigning rights to utilize cloud resources associated with a service provider's computing hardware is provided. The example method can include defining a rights package including multiple rights pertaining to utilization of the cloud resources. The rights package can be assigned across multiple tenants of the service provider. The example method can also include defining a global role that includes potential rights, where the global role is assignable to individual tenant users of the tenant. The global roles can be made available to multiple tenants using the service provider. The method can further include provisioning filtered rights to utilize the cloud resources to a tenant user of the tenant, the tenant user being assigned the global role. The filtered rights can include rights present in both the potential rights defined for the global role and the rights defined for the rights package.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Jeff Moroski, Ron Passerini, John Kilroy
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Publication number: 20200236115Abstract: An example method for assigning rights to utilize cloud resources associated with a service provider's computing hardware is provided. The example method can include defining a rights package including multiple rights pertaining to utilization of the cloud resources. The rights package can be assigned across multiple tenants of the service provider. The example method can also include defining a global role that includes potential rights, where the global role is assignable to individual tenant users of the tenant. The global roles can be made available to multiple tenants using the service provider. The method can further include provisioning filtered rights to utilize the cloud resources to a tenant user of the tenant, the tenant user being assigned the global role. The filtered rights can include rights present in both the potential rights defined for the global role and the rights defined for the rights package.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Jeff Moroski, Ron Passerini, John Kilroy
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Patent number: 9558070Abstract: Embodiments maintain high availability of software application instances in a fault domain. Subordinate hosts are monitored by a master host. The subordinate hosts publish heartbeats via a network and datastores. Based at least in part on the published heartbeats, the master host determines the status of each subordinate host, distinguishing between subordinate hosts that are entirely inoperative and subordinate hosts that are operative but partitioned (e.g., unreachable via the network). The master host may restart software application instances, such as virtual machines, that are executed by inoperative subordinate hosts or that cease executing on partitioned subordinate hosts.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Michael Nelson, Keith Farkas, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal, Guoqiang Shu, Ron Passerini, Joanne Ren
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Publication number: 20150089272Abstract: Embodiments maintain high availability of software application instances in a fault domain. Subordinate hosts are monitored by a master host. The subordinate hosts publish heartbeats via a network and datastores. Based at least in part on the published heartbeats, the master host determines the status of each subordinate host, distinguishing between subordinate hosts that are entirely inoperative and subordinate hosts that are operative but partitioned (e.g., unreachable via the network). The master host may restart software application instances, such as virtual machines, that are executed by inoperative subordinate hosts or that cease executing on partitioned subordinate hosts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: Michael Nelson, Keith Farkas, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal, Guoqiang Shu, Ron Passerini, Joanne Ren
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Patent number: 8924967Abstract: Embodiments maintain high availability of software application instances in a fault domain. Subordinate hosts are monitored by a master host. The subordinate hosts publish heartbeats via a network and datastores. Based at least in part on the published heartbeats, the master host determines the status of each subordinate host, distinguishing between subordinate hosts that are entirely inoperative and subordinate hosts that are operative but partitioned (e.g., unreachable via the network). The master host may restart software application instances, such as virtual machines, that are executed by inoperative subordinate hosts or that cease executing on partitioned subordinate hosts.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Michael Nelson, Keith Farkas, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal, Guoqiang Shu, Ron Passerini, Joanne Ren
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Publication number: 20120278801Abstract: Embodiments maintain high availability of software application instances in a fault domain. Subordinate hosts are monitored by a master host. The subordinate hosts publish heartbeats via a network and datastores. Based at least in part on the published heartbeats, the master host determines the status of each subordinate host, distinguishing between subordinate hosts that are entirely inoperative and subordinate hosts that are operative but partitioned (e.g., unreachable via the network). The master host may restart software application instances, such as virtual machines, that are executed by inoperative subordinate hosts or that cease executing on partitioned subordinate hosts.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Michael NELSON, Keith Farkas, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal, Guoqiang Shu, Ron Passerini, Joanne Ren
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Patent number: 7904428Abstract: A storage management device records write requests that are directed to a data store. In one embodiment, the storage management device records a plurality of write request entries, each one of which includes information relating to a write request, in at least one first database table, and maintains, for each first database table, at least one record in a second database table. The one or more records in the second database table include data representing the effects of the write requests on a state of at least one portion of the data store. In one such embodiment, each time that one write request entry is recorded in one first database table, the storage management device updates at least one record in the second database table.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Symantec CorporationInventors: Robert Perry, Ron Passerini, Michael Rowan
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Patent number: 7827362Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage in at least one logical unit by processing I/O requests directed to the logical units using a LUN queue and an operation-type queue. By using the queues to process the I/O requests, the requests can be processed without address collisions.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Symantec CorporationInventor: Ron Passerini
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Patent number: 7730222Abstract: The disclosed technology can be used to develop systems and perform methods that receive and process I/O requests directed to at least a part of a logical unit of storage. The I/O requests can be associated with different times corresponding to when such I/O requests were received. Nodes that include non-overlapping address ranges associated with the logical unit of storage can be formed in response to receiving the I/O requests and such nodes can be subsequently organized into a tree data structure. The tree data structure can serve as a basis for determining address overlap, for example to enable processing a first operation associated with a first one of the I/O requests in accordance with the first I/O request's receipt time, while one or more other operations associated with a different I/O request may be processed irrespective of that different I/O request's receipt time.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Symantec Operating SystemInventor: Ron Passerini
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Patent number: 7296008Abstract: The invention relates to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for generating an image of a data store at a past time by using a map (e.g., a time map) of the locations of data stored in the data store at the specified past time. The map allows the data storage system to quickly determine the locations of data stored in a data store at a past time, without searching the entire index of records concerning the locations of the past data.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Symantec Operating CorporationInventors: Ron Passerini, Tianming Zhang
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Publication number: 20060047903Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage in at least one logical unit by processing I/O requests directed to the logical units using a LUN queue and an operation-type queue. By using the queues to process the I/O requests, the requests can be processed without address collisions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2004Publication date: March 2, 2006Inventor: Ron Passerini
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Publication number: 20060047902Abstract: The disclosed technology can be used to develop systems and perform methods that receive and process I/O requests directed to at least a part of a logical unit of storage. The I/O requests can be associated with different times corresponding to when such I/O requests were received. Nodes that include non-overlapping address ranges associated with the logical unit of storage can be formed in response to receiving the I/O requests and such nodes can be subsequently organized into a tree data structure. The tree data structure can serve as a basis for determining address overlap, for example to enable processing a first operation associated with a first one of the I/O requests in accordance with the first I/O request's receipt time, while one or more other operations associated with a different I/O request may be processed irrespective of that different I/O request's receipt time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2004Publication date: March 2, 2006Inventor: Ron Passerini
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Publication number: 20060047999Abstract: The invention relates to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for generating an image of a data store at a past time by using a map (e.g., a time map) of the locations of data stored in the data store at the specified past time. The map allows the data storage system to quickly determine the locations of data stored in a data store at a past time, without searching the entire index of records concerning the locations of the past data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2004Publication date: March 2, 2006Inventors: Ron Passerini, Tianming Zhang
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Publication number: 20050066118Abstract: A storage management device records write requests that are directed to a data store. In one embodiment, the storage management device records a plurality of write request entries, each one of which includes information relating to a write request, in at least one first database table, and maintains, for each first database table, at least one record in a second database table. The one or more records in the second database table include data representing the effects of the write requests on a state of at least one portion of the data store. In one such embodiment, each time that one write request entry is recorded in one first database table, the storage management device updates at least one record in the second database table.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Robert Perry, Ron Passerini, Michael Rowan