Patents by Inventor Vincent Joseph BLAS

Vincent Joseph BLAS 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).

  • Publication number: 20230128837
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for intelligent outage evaluation and insight management for monitoring and incident management systems. A set of incident logs associated with a cloud computing service are received by a cloud computing service provider system. Each incident log includes impact data corresponding to a respective incident that occurred during an evaluation period. The impact data includes an interruption count representative of a number of interruptions on resources caused by the respective incident. A total active resource time representative of resource activity during the evaluation period is determined. An interruption rate is determined for the evaluation period by summing interruption counts to generate a total interruption count and dividing the total interruption count by the total active resource time. An actionable insight applicable to the cloud computing service is generated based on the interruption rate and the incident logs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Bing HU, Zhangwei XU, Vincent Joseph BLAS, Peiling WU, Chaturanan Damodar MISHRA, Igor FIGLIN, Robert Gerard BOYCE, Anupama VEDAPURI, Oren ROSENBLOOM, Nicholas Anthony SWANSON, Murali CHINTALAPATI
  • Patent number: 11416786
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a computer system that is located within a power grid and that is associated with its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding a future load event associated with the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more operations are performed to balance the computer system with the power grid during the future load event, and to ensure a determined availability of services associated with the computer system during the future load event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rees Helsel, Vincent Joseph Blas, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Sean Michael James, Brandon Middaugh
  • Publication number: 20200234202
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a computer system that is located within a power grid and that is associated with its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding a future load event associated with the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more operations are performed to balance the computer system with the power grid during the future load event, and to ensure a determined availability of services associated with the computer system during the future load event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Rees HELSEL, Vincent Joseph BLAS, Nicholas Andrew KEEHN, Sean Michael JAMES, Brandon MIDDAUGH
  • Patent number: 10628762
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a data center that is located within a power grid and that includes its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Current and/or future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding an upcoming, anticipated load for the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more mitigation operations are selected and then performed at the data center to ensure that the data center is adequately available. Some of these mitigation operations include, but are not limited to, causing the data center to consume more power, causing the data center's power sources to store more power, or causing the data center to migrate services and/or data to a different data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rees Helsel, Vincent Joseph Blas, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Sean Michael James, Brandon Middaugh
  • Publication number: 20190311442
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a data center that is located within a power grid and that includes its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Current and/or future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding an upcoming, anticipated load for the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more mitigation operations are selected and then performed at the data center to ensure that the data center is adequately available. Some of these mitigation operations include, but are not limited to, causing the data center to consume more power, causing the data center's power sources to store more power, or causing the data center to migrate services and/or data to a different data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Rees HELSEL, Vincent Joseph BLAS, Nicholas Andrew KEEHN, Sean Michael JAMES, Brandon MIDDAUGH