Patents by Inventor Colin Michael Humphreys

Colin Michael Humphreys 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: 10841152
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for creating and configuring computing clusters on a cloud computing platform. One of the methods includes receiving, by a service broker, a user input requesting creation of a computing cluster. The service broker generates, based at least in part on one or more release templates and the user input, a deployment manifest that specifies components and properties of a deployment of one or more clusters of a container orchestrator. The service broker provides the deployment manifest to a deployment manager. The deployment manager creates, according to the deployment manifest, one or more computing clusters in which one or more containerized applications are managed by the container orchestrator. Each computing cluster is configured to execute, in a user space, a containerized application specified by the container orchestrator. References to the computing cluster(s) are provided to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin Michael Humphreys
  • Patent number: 10735278
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing availability metrics for an integrated service. One of the methods includes generating, for a service installed on a software platform, a plurality of availability logs, each availability log representing an occurrence of the service becoming unavailable. The plurality of availability logs are aggregated according to one or more aggregation criteria. The aggregated availability logs are processed to compute one or more availability metrics for the service, wherein each availability metric quantifies the availability of the service to process requests from the plurality of workloads in the presence of system failures and interruptions. An availability rating for the service is computed from the one or more availability metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Onsi Joe Fakhouri, Amit Kumar Gupta, Colin Michael Humphreys
  • Patent number: 10379968
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for backing up and restore a deployment on a cloud computing platform are described. A deployment on a cloud computing platform includes a set of virtual machines and corresponding disks. A deployment may include multiple subunits designated as deployment jobs. A respective job specification file specifies respective resources used by each deployment job. The resources include various scripts specifying actions to take before, during, and after a backup. A backup orchestrator, upon receiving a backup request for the deployment, executes the scripts in a pre-specified sequence ordered by script type. When a particular type of scripts executes, the corresponding script for each deployment job, if specified in the specification file to correspond to that type, executes. When all scripts of a particular type finish execution, scripts having a next type execute. Accordingly, the operations of backing up multiple deployment jobs are synchronized and orchestrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Therese Louise Stowell, Kalyan Chakravarthy Dudala, Colin Michael Humphreys, Simon James Jones, Jatin Naik, Alvaro Perez-Shirley, Henry Arthur James Stanley
  • Publication number: 20180322019
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for backing up and restore a deployment on a cloud computing platform are described. A deployment on a cloud computing platform includes a set of virtual machines and corresponding disks. A deployment may include multiple subunits designated as deployment jobs. A respective job specification file specifies respective resources used by each deployment job. The resources include various scripts specifying actions to take before, during, and after a backup. A backup orchestrator, upon receiving a backup request for the deployment, executes the scripts in a pre-specified sequence ordered by script type. When a particular type of scripts executes, the corresponding script for each deployment job, if specified in the specification file to correspond to that type, executes. When all scripts of a particular type finish execution, scripts having a next type execute. Accordingly, the operations of backing up multiple deployment jobs are synchronized and orchestrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Therese Louise Stowell, Kalyan Chakravarthy Dudala, Colin Michael Humphreys, Simon James Jones, Jatin Naik, Alvaro Perez-Shirley, Henry Arthur James Stanley