Patents Assigned to BMC Software, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10268730
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media for implementing a Focus-Driven User Interface using a Focus-Driven MVC architecture are described. The Focus-Driven MVC architecture builds on the traditional MVC framework, adding a Focus component between the Controller and Model components. The Focus component implements Focus Logic to handle Focus-Driven features. The Focus component may receive access commands or requests from the Controller, relay those commands to the Model and, in response, obtain data from the Model. The Focus Logic applies rules to the data, determines relevancy rankings for the given property, and sends the processed data to the Controller which, in turn, may update the user interface with the processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Joseph Kowalski, Ashish Arora
  • Patent number: 10257022
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon for ranking multiple computer modules to reduce failure impacts. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system implementing the multiple computer modules to at least associate the multiple computer modules with multiple services that rely on the multiple computer modules, at least one of the multiple services relying on more than one of the multiple computer modules, determine values of the multiple services, and rank the multiple computer modules based on the determined values of the multiple services with which the respective multiple computer modules are associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Nilesh Phadke, Pallavi Phadke
  • Patent number: 10235435
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a system for assisting a user with configuration management may include a configuration management database (CMDB) system having a plurality of configuration items, and an application external to the CMDB system. The CMDB system may associate an invocation string with a first configuration item and the application external to the CMDB system. The CMDB system may obtain information from the first configuration item, where the information from the first configuration item provides information for launching the application external to the CMDB system. The CMDB system may insert the information from the first configuration item into the invocation string to create an application execution command. The CMDB system may execute the application external to the CMDB system, independently from the CMDB system, based on the application execution command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Mueller, Jiani Chen
  • Patent number: 10229243
    Abstract: A method and system create a model of a set of relationships between a set of parent computer network objects and a set of corresponding child computer network objects, over a period of time, and output a user interface graphing the model in a single view to illustrate the set of relationships over the period of time. The parent computer network objects include virtual machines and the child computer network objects include hosts. The user interface includes a search option to provide for a search of problems with the child computer network objects over the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Ricky Poston, Michael Cooper
  • Patent number: 10198476
    Abstract: A system for reconciling object for a configuration management databases employs statistical rules to reduce the amount of manual identification required by conventional reconciliation techniques. As users manually identify matches between source and target datasets, statistical rules are developed based on the criteria used for matching. Those statistical rules are then used for future matching. A threshold value is adjusted as the statistical rules are used, incrementing the threshold value when the rule successfully matches source and target objects. If the threshold value exceeds a predetermined acceptance value, the system may automatically accept a match made by a statistical rule. Otherwise, suggestions of possibly applicable rules may be presented to a user, who may use the suggested rules to match objects, causing adjustment of the threshold value associated with the suggested rules used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Vitaly Morozov, Eric Humphrey
  • Patent number: 10171596
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide automatic discovery of cluster membership based on transaction processing. An example method includes, at a source node of a first tier of nodes, generating a service identifier for a transaction that requests a service hosted by a second tier, the service identifier being based on a logical identifier for the second tier. The method also includes sending the transaction, including the service identifier, from the source node to the service hosted by the second tier. The method includes, at a destination node in the second tier, obtaining the service identifier from the transaction and reporting the service identifier with a destination node identifier to a visibility server as cluster information. The method also includes, at the visibility server, receiving cluster information from a plurality of destination nodes and assigning each of the plurality of destination nodes to a cluster based on the service identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Eyal Koren, Nitsan Daniel Lavie, Sergey Kleyman
  • Patent number: 10171565
    Abstract: An example system may include one or more collectors and an analyzer. The one or more collectors receive a plurality of data streams that include operational data for a plurality of application nodes. The plurality of data streams are captured and provided by a plurality of meters deployed on at least one cloud computing platform to respectively meter the plurality of application nodes. The analyzer processes the plurality of data streams to generate real-time performance data for a first application of a plurality of applications and generates, based on the real-time performance data for the application instances, statistics for data flows between components of the first application. The analyzer generates comparative statistics on the performance of the first application relative to the performance of the plurality of applications hosted, and reallocated, based on the comparative statistics, resources for the performance of the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Cliff Moon, Benjamin Black
  • Patent number: 10169095
    Abstract: The method may include collecting performance data relating to processing nodes of a computer system which provide services via one or more applications, analyzing the performance data to generate an operational profile characterizing resource usage of the processing nodes, receiving a set of attributes characterizing expected performance goals in which the services are expected to be provided, and generating at least one provisioning policy based on an analysis of the operational profile in conjunction with the set of attributes. The at least one provisioning policy may specify a condition for re-allocating resources associated with at least one processing node in a manner that satisfies the performance goals of the set of attributes. The method may further include re-allocating, during runtime, the resources associated with the at least one processing node when the condition of the at least one provisioning policy is determined as satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiping Ding, Assaf Marron, Fred Johannessen
  • Patent number: 10133564
    Abstract: A method of administering a computing system, including a plurality of computing devices. The method includes selecting an application for inclusion in a menu of applications downloadable to a computing device and interposing a wrapper on the application before the computing device downloads the application, the wrapper being configured to control an operation of the application. Interposing the wrapper on the application includes decompiling the application, searching for string patterns, and replacing the string patterns with another string pattern, the another string pattern being configured to intercept at least one of a system event or an Application Programming Interface (API) call and associating logic with the application. The logic is configured to interact with the application via the at least one system event or API call, the logic is configured to provide additional functions to the application, and the logic is stored separate from the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Charles Cooper, George Thucydides, Geoffrey Ross Mair, Caleb Peter Buxton
  • Patent number: 10127296
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems to provide coordinated identification of data items across a plurality of distributed data storage repositories (datastores). In one disclosed embodiment, a single configuration management database (CMDB) controls identification rights for all CIs as they are first identified in a master/slave relationship with all other CMDBs in the distributed environment. In a second embodiment, a plurality of CMDBs divide identification rights based upon coordination identification rules where certain CMDBs are assigned authoritative identification rights for CIs matching the rules of a particular CMDB in the distributed environment. In a third embodiment, one or more of the plurality of CMDBs may also have advisory identification rights for CIs which do not already have an identifiable unique identity and can coordinate with an authoritative CMDB to establish an identity for CIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Govindarajan Rangarajan, Ajoy Kumar, Narayan Kumar, Douglas Mueller, Matthew Conners, Darius Wallace
  • Patent number: 10108459
    Abstract: A mainframe computing system hosts a plurality of logical partitions, each having a static entitlement of processing capacity. The mainframe computer system has a workload manager that schedules work requested by the logical partitions and tracks consumption of the processing capacity by the logical partitions, and a capping policy that is stored in non-transitory memory and which identifies a subset of the logical partitions. The mainframe computer system further includes a capping master that is configured to allocate dynamically varying entitlements of processing capacity to the subset of the logical partitions based on the high-importance work percentages of computing workloads running on the logical partitions to encourage completion of high-importance work over completion of low-importance work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Williams, Steven DeGrange, Hemanth Rama, Robert Perini
  • Patent number: 10110665
    Abstract: An environment for facilitating the management of content for users associated with specific partner networks is provided. Users may be granted access to such specific partner networks in accordance with each user's affiliation with one or more organizations. In accordance with the above, a content management system facilitates the content/information exchange by accepting software applications from content providers. Additionally, the content management system accepts software application specifications or manifests from partner network administrators. Accordingly, the content management system can audit and recommend actions to users regarding applicable software application based one user organizational associations. Still further, the content management system can facilitate requests from affiliated users for specific types of content that can be forwarded to content providers and later made available to affiliated users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ross Mair, Simon David Geddes, Larry Vaughan Toube
  • Patent number: 10104079
    Abstract: An authentication engine may be configured to receive an authentication request and credentials from a client. The authentication engine may then generate a proxy agent configured to interact with an identity provider to authenticate the client on behalf of the client, using the credentials. In this way, the authentication engine may receive an assertion of authentication of the client from the identity provider, by way of the proxy agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl Frederick Miller
  • Patent number: 10079713
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon for ranking multiple computer modules to reduce failure impacts. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system implementing the multiple computer modules to at least associate the multiple computer modules with multiple services that rely on the multiple computer modules, at least one of the multiple services relying on more than one of the multiple computer modules, determine values of the multiple services, and rank the multiple computer modules based on the determined values of the multiple services with which the respective multiple computer modules are associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Nilesh Phadke, Pallavi Phadke
  • Patent number: 10061831
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a computer-implemented system for reference partitioning database objects by a reference field includes at least one hardware processor, at least one database environment, the database environment supporting triggers and partitioning, at least one application program, and memory storing a reference field metadata framework. The reference field metadata framework identifies classes in a hierarchy of database objects, identifies at least one class as a root of the hierarchy, identifies, for each non-root class, a reference inheritance function for the class, and identifies, for each parent class-child class pair in the hierarchy, a relation-join query, the relation-join query being a join between tables in the database environment onto which the parent class and child class are persisted. The memory also stores triggers that use the framework to maintain values for the reference field for non-root database objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Zack Milousheff, Kalpa Ashhar
  • Patent number: 10002203
    Abstract: A system and method for managing data transfer operations includes at least one data server including data stored in a plurality of data fields, at least one transaction server operatively coupled to the at least one data server and configured to provide at least one customizable business rule and a customer relationship application, an information server operatively coupled to the at least one transaction server, and at least one workstation operatively coupled to the information server. The least one workstation includes local memory accessible to the customer relationship application and configured to provide web communication and presentation services to a user of the at least one workstation that are deployed on the information server. The at least one customizable business rule specifies a mapping between the plurality of data fields and the local memory, the mapping having been provided by the user interacting with the web communication and presentation services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. George, Cynthia L. Sturgeon
  • Patent number: 9983900
    Abstract: An access data collector collects access assignment data characterizing active access assignment operations of a hypervisor in assigning host computing resources among virtual machines for use in execution of the virtual machines. Then, a capacity risk indicator calculator calculates a capacity risk indicator characterizing a capacity risk of the host computing resources with respect to meeting a prospective capacity demand of the virtual machines, based on the access assignment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeyashree Sivasubramanian, Sudheer Apte
  • Patent number: 9967162
    Abstract: A generic discovery methodology collects data pertaining to components of a computer network using various discovery technologies. From the collected data, the methodology identifies, filters and analyzes information related to inter-component communications. Using the communication and application information, the methodology determines reliable relationships for those components having sufficient information available. To qualify more components, the methodology implements a decision service to generate hypothetical relationships between components that are known and components that are unqualified or unknown. The hypothetical relationships are presented to a user for selection, and each hypothetical relationship is preferably associated with an indication of its reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Lionel Spinelli, Jean-Claude Chabrier, Pierre Germain
  • Patent number: 9946527
    Abstract: A container set manager may determine a plurality of container sets, each container set specifying a non-functional architectural concern associated with deployment of a service within at least one data center. A decision table manager may determine a decision table specifying relative priority levels of the container sets relative to one another with respect to the deployment. A placement engine may determine an instance of an application placement model (APM), based on the plurality of container sets and the decision table, determine an instance of a data center placement model (DPM) representing the at least one data center, and generate a placement plan for the deployment, based on the APM instance and the DPM instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijit Sharma, Nilesh Phadke, Alexander Vul, Varun Karnati, Rajesh Kamineni
  • Patent number: 9946528
    Abstract: The method includes receiving, at a commercial app store system, an application including embedded customization code, publishing, by the commercial app store system, the application to a commercial app store, associating the application with a license to a private app store, the private app store being associated with the end-user computing device, installing the application on the end-user computing device, receiving an indication from the end-user computing device that the application has launched, and communicating customization data to the end-user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Geoff Ross Mair