Patents by Inventor Anees A. Shaikh

Anees A. Shaikh 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: 10614387
    Abstract: Techniques for creating a nomenclature to represent one or more groups within a process are provided. The techniques include obtaining a process, wherein the process comprises one or more groups, and creating a nomenclature to represent the one or more groups, wherein the nomenclature facilitates usability of the process in at least one of an operation and design environment. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of one or more processes, wherein each process is represented by a nomenclature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Debanjan Saha, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 10182005
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a switch controller in communication with a plurality of switches in a switch cluster via a communication protocol. The switch controller includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to receive an address resolution protocol (ARP) request packet as a unicast packet from an entry switch in the switch cluster, the entry switch being connected to a first host. The logic is also configured to cause the processor to send an ARP response packet as a unicast packet to the entry switch. The ARP response packet indicates a media access control (MAC) address of the switch controller as a source MAC (SMAC) for the ARP response packet, and an internet protocol (IP) address of a virtual router of the switch controller as being a source of the ARP response packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin K. Dixon, Wesley M. Felter, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Dayavanti G. Kamath, Abhijit P. Kumbhare, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20160337231
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a switch controller in communication with a plurality of switches in a switch cluster via a communication protocol. The switch controller includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to receive an address resolution protocol (ARP) request packet as a unicast packet from an entry switch in the switch cluster, the entry switch being connected to a first host. The logic is also configured to cause the processor to send an ARP response packet as a unicast packet to the entry switch. The ARP response packet indicates a media access control (MAC) address of the switch controller as a source MAC (SMAC) for the ARP response packet, and an internet protocol (IP) address of a virtual router of the switch controller as being a source of the ARP response packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Colin K. Dixon, Wesley M. Felter, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Dayavanti G. Kamath, Abhijit P. Kumbhare, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 9426060
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, Layer-3 (L3) distributed router functionality is provided to a switch cluster by receiving an address resolution protocol (ARP) request packet from a first host at an entry switch in a switch cluster, a switch controller being in communication with the entry switch, and the ARP request packet including a virtual router IP address of the switch controller as a target, forwarding the ARP request packet to the switch controller after adding a header that adheres to a communication protocol used by the switch controller, receiving an ARP response packet from the switch controller indicating: a source IP address corresponding to a virtual router of the switch controller and a SMAC corresponding to the switch controller, forwarding the ARP response packet to the first host after stripping the communication protocol header, and setting the virtual router as a default gateway for traffic received from the first host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin K. Dixon, Wesley M. Felter, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Dayavanti G. Kamath, Abhijit P. Kumbhare, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 9070106
    Abstract: A plurality of base templates is generated. Each of the base templates models a corresponding process. A plurality of instances of each of the base templates is instantiated. Each of the plurality of instances corresponds to an application of the corresponding process to a particular environment. Each of the instances of each of the base templates is annotated, based, in each case, upon observation of functioning of the instance in the particular environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nikolaos Anerousis, Milton H. Hernandez, Hani T. Jamjoon, Debanjan Saha, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Zon-Yin Shae, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 9063791
    Abstract: A service-level specification for information technology services is obtained from a user. The service-level specification is mapped into an information technology specific deployment plan. Information technology specific resources are deployed in accordance with the information technology specific deployment plan to provide the information technology services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chitra Dorai, Raymond B. Jennings, III, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20150098475
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a switch controller in communication with a plurality of switches in a switch cluster via a communication protocol, at least one switch in the switch cluster being configured to connect to a host, wherein the switch controller is configured to: maintain a Layer-3 (L3) host table configured to store entries including address information for hosts connected directly to the switch cluster, apply a policy to all existing entries in the L3 host table, and remove one or more existing entries according to the policy in order to reduce a number of entries in the L3 host table. In other embodiments, systems, computer program products, and methods for managing a L3 host table in software defined network (SDN)-based switch clusters having L3 distributed router functionality are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Dayavanti G. Kamath, Abhijit P. Kumbhare, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20150043576
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, Layer-3 (L3) distributed router functionality is provided to a switch cluster by receiving an address resolution protocol (ARP) request packet from a first host at an entry switch in a switch cluster, a switch controller being in communication with the entry switch, and the ARP request packet including a virtual router IP address of the switch controller as a target, forwarding the ARP request packet to the switch controller after adding a header that adheres to a communication protocol used by the switch controller, receiving an ARP response packet from the switch controller indicating: a source IP address corresponding to a virtual router of the switch controller and a SMAC corresponding to the switch controller, forwarding the ARP response packet to the first host after stripping the communication protocol header, and setting the virtual router as a default gateway for traffic received from the first host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Colin K. Dixon, Wesley M. Felter, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Dayavanti G. Kamath, Abhijit P. Kumbhare, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8892945
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first layer, first and second active areas disposed on the first layer; a trench disposed between the first and second active areas, an insulating oxide that fills the trench to a level below a surface of the first and second active layers, and a nitride cap disposed on top of the insulating oxide so that the first and second active areas can be cleaned without damaging the insulating oxide. A top surface of the nitride cap in regions adjacent to the first and second active areas in aligned with a top surface of the first and second active areas, a top surface of the nitride cap in a center region of the nitride cap is stepped below the top surface of the adjacent regions, and a void is formed between the top surface regions adjacent to the first and second active areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Theophilus Benson, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8839238
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically managing a sleep state of a virtual machine are provided. The techniques include detecting idleness of a virtual machine, putting the idle virtual machine into a sleep state, implementing a virtual machine surrogate, wherein the virtual machine surrogate listens to network traffic, enabling the virtual machine to handle network traffic that is capable of being handled by the virtual machine, and enabling the virtual machine to queue network traffic and wake-up the virtual machine in the sleep state for network traffic that the virtual machine surrogate is incapable of handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8713564
    Abstract: A method (and system) for managing a distributed-memory parallel application running on multiple servers, includes dynamically moving a plurality of executable program components, where each of the plurality of executable program components are running on one of a plurality of virtual machines, using migration of the virtual machines between physical servers. The load balancing is operated based on a workload of each of the virtual machines and servers, where a virtual machine, or a plurality of virtual machines, are transferred to balance the workload between each of the servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcel-Catalin Rosu, Dehanjan Saba, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8661132
    Abstract: A service-level specification for information technology services is obtained from a user. The service-level specification is mapped into an information technology specific deployment plan. Information technology specific resources are deployed in accordance with the information technology specific deployment plan to provide the information technology services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chitra Dorai, Raymond B. Jennings, III, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8650562
    Abstract: A method monitors machine activity of multiple virtual computing devices operating through at least one physical computing device by running a monitoring agent. The monitoring agent monitors performance of the multiple virtual computing devices. The method measures simple operating characteristics of only a base level virtual computing device. The method monitors complex operating characteristics using the monitoring agent by: measuring the complex operating characteristics for each of the multiple virtual computing devices (using each of the multiple virtual computing devices); recording the complex operating characteristics of each of the multiple virtual computing devices on a corresponding memory page of each of the multiple virtual computing devices; and sharing each the corresponding memory page with the base level virtual computing device through an interdomain communications channels to transfer the complex operating characteristics to the monitoring agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kai-Yuan Hou, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8615588
    Abstract: A system, program product, and method are provided for copying a virtual machine image. An image library comprising a plurality of system images is provided by a target data processing system. A source image selection is received at the target data processing system. A given image from the image library is selected by the target system based on the received source image. The selected given image is transformed into a copy of the virtual machine image by receiving blocks from a source system that are part of the virtual machine image but not a part of the selected given image, such that only the blocks missing from the selected given image are transferred from the source system to the target system in order to form the copy of the virtual machine image. The source image is preferably a virtual data processing system image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chitra Dorai, John Fortelny, William J. Hladik, Jr., Rajeev Puri, Anees A. Shaikh, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Mark W. Zeininger
  • Patent number: 8572625
    Abstract: A system and method for determining application dependent components includes capturing interactions of an application stored in memory of a first environment with other components at runtime. The interactions are parsed and categorized to determine dependency information. The application is migrated to a new environment using the dependency information to reconfigure the application after migration without application-specific knowledge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20130262923
    Abstract: A method of deploying a software application on the Internet cloud that is failure-tolerant includes identifying those aspects of a software application that need to be persisted in the event of failure, and those aspects of the application that do not need to be persisted, and deploying the application where aspects that need to be persisted are deployed to persistent storage and aspects that aspects that do not need to be persisted are deployed ton non-persistent virtual partitions, where when a virtual partition or an application component fails, an instance of the application is recreatable from those application aspects that were deployed to persistent storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Theophilus Benson, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20130247136
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for automated validation of compliance in a cloud server. The method includes remotely accessing a target cloud server to discover at least one configuration setting of the target cloud server, integrating the at least one configuration setting from the target cloud server with information from at least one back-end tool to produce compliance evidence, and automatically answering a set of at least one checklist question for activation compliance validation of the target cloud server based on the compliance evidence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Shantanu Dutta, Ashu Gupta, Angela McKay, Bob Prysock, Ratnasagar Ramaratnam, Anees A. Shaikh, Manas Singh, Chunqiang Tang, Mahesh Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 8458284
    Abstract: A system for transferring a live application from a source to a target machines includes memory capture component that monitors and captures memory segments associated with one or more memories, one or more sets of these memory segments comprising one or more applications, the memory segments changing while the live application is in execution. A frequency ranking component organizes the memory segments in an order determined by memory segment change frequency. A link identification component identifies one or more connecting links to one or more sets of peer machines, each set of machines connecting said source machine to said target machine, the link identifier further determining the bandwidth associated with each connecting link. A routing component preferentially routes one or more of the memory segments over said connecting links based on said order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees A. Shaikh, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Sai Zeng
  • Patent number: 8448171
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing communications between a plurality of applications are presented. A determination is made as to whether an address in a message is a prior address for a second application in the plurality of applications in response to receiving a message from a first application in the plurality of applications. The message is sent onto a virtual network configured to handle prior addresses for the plurality of applications in response to the address in the message being the prior address for the second application being located on another virtual machine from the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Donnellan, Chitra Dorai, Anees A. Shaikh, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai
  • Patent number: 8429651
    Abstract: A virtual machine is migrated between a source cloud and a destination cloud. A temporary storage is mounted to a partition management firmware of the source cloud and to a partition management firmware of the destination cloud. A first storage location migration migrates the virtual machine from the source cloud to the at least one temporary storage. A second storage location migration migrates the virtual machine from the at least one temporary storage to final destination storage of the destination cloud. The temporary storage is then unmounted from the partition management firmware of the source cloud and from the partition management firmware of the destination cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Donnellan, Chitra Dorai, Anees A. Shaikh, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Jie Zheng