Patents by Inventor Florian Graf

Florian Graf 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).

  • REPLACING VIRTUAL MACHINE DISKS
    Publication number: 20160110215
    Abstract: At least one target virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated with an existing target virtual machine in a target virtualized environment is merged with at least one source virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated with a source. The merging is carried out to obtain at least one merged virtual disk descriptor compatible with the target virtualized environment. The at least one virtual disk associated with the existing target virtual machine in the target virtualized environment is replaced with the at least one virtual disk associated with the source, in accordance with the at least one merged virtual disk descriptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Milton A. Bonilla, Florian Graf, David Kohen, Brian Peterson, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, John J. Rofrano, Kristiann J. Schultz, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Replacing virtual machine disks
    Patent number: 9292330
    Abstract: At least one target virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated with an existing target virtual machine in a target virtualized environment is merged with at least one source virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated with a source. The merging is carried out to obtain at least one merged virtual disk descriptor compatible with the target virtualized environment. The at least one virtual disk associated with the existing target virtual machine in the target virtualized environment is replaced with the at least one virtual disk associated with the source, in accordance with the at least one merged virtual disk descriptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Milton A. Bonilla, Florian Graf, David Kohen, Brian Peterson, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, John J. Rofrano, Kristiann J. Schultz, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
  • ADJUSTMENT TO MANAGED-INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-SERVICE CLOUD STANDARD
    Publication number: 20140149492
    Abstract: An arbitrary customer instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image. An image adjustment plan, capturing at least one adjustment required to render the transferred image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, is formulated. The image adjustment plan is executed to adjust the transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment. The adjusted image is on-boarded into the managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rema Ananthanarayanan, Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Praveen Jayachandran, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Kristiann J. Schultz, Akshat Verma, Balaji Viswanathan, Xiaolan Zhang
  • MIGRATION TO MANAGED CLOUDS
    Publication number: 20140149591
    Abstract: A foreign instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as an image. The foreign instance is adjusted to standards of the infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment to obtain an adjusted instance. The adjusted instance is registered into a management system of the infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Matthew A. Markley, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Marcel Schlatter, Hsiao Choong Thio, Gerhard Widmayer, Xiaolan Zhang
  • METHOD FOR DETECTING, ON A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK SIDE, THE COMPLEXITY, ON THE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK SIDE, OF A TELECOMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN TWO SUBSCRIBERS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE RATE, AND DEVICE FOR REALISING THE SAME
    Patent number: 6847815
    Abstract: An optimized detection of the complexity at the telecommunication network end for the purpose of charging is made possible by a telecommunication network and a method for detecting, at the telecommunication network end, the complexity, at the telecommunication network end, with respect to a desired or existing telecommunication connection between two subscribers for the purpose of charging, in which a subscriber is a mobile radio subscriber with a mobile radio and the other subscriber is a line network subscriber with a line network connection, in which the position of the mobile radio subscriber is detected, in which, in the case of a telecommunication connection of the mobile radio subscriber to a line network subscriber, whose line network connection, due to the line network connection dialing code, is located within a predeterminable local area surrounding the position of the mobile radio subscriber, a local call is detected, whereas, in the case of a telecommunication connection of the mobile radio su
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Mannesmann AG
    Inventors: Florian Graf, Peter Kempa, Oliver Mauss, Eckhard Siebe, Thorsten Werther