Patents by Inventor Hail Tal
Hail Tal 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).
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Publication number: 20230385121Abstract: A datacenter that hosts a client instance may receive an input to perform discovery against a containerized application orchestration infrastructure that includes computing clusters associated with one or more resource providers. The datacenter retrieves cluster data associated with each computing cluster from the one or more resource providers, automatically creates respective discovery schedules for the computing clusters based on the cluster data, automatically executes the respective discovery schedules for the computing clusters, automatically retrieves respective authentication bearer tokens associated with the computing clusters, automatically performs respective discovery processes against the computing clusters using the respective authentication bearer tokens, and stores the resource data received from the computing clusters in a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Aditya Kumar, Manish S.V. Kumar, Hail Tal, Abhishek Kumar, Tal Kapon
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Publication number: 20230208710Abstract: A discovery application on a computing system is provided. The discovery application receives a user input, which is for discovery of resources associated with a cloud operating system of a cloud computing system. The user input includes an authentication credential and account information associated with the cloud operating system. Based on the received input, the discovery application executes a discovery pattern comprising operations for the discovery of resources. The cloud operating system includes a group of services to access such resources. At least one of the operations corresponds to an API call to an API endpoint associated with a service of the group of services. The discovery application receives a response to the API call from the cloud operating system. The response includes a payload of information associated with the resources. The discovery application updates, based on the received response, one or more configuration items in a configuration management database.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Hail Tal, Tom Bar Oz, Bary Solomon, Leonid Suslov
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Patent number: 11645309Abstract: A computing system includes a database and a discovery application. The discovery application obtains credentials for accessing a server hosting a software bus application which connects a plurality of applications within a managed network. The discovery application selects, based on a pattern corresponding to the software bus application, one or more files to access, transmits, to the server, instructions to access the one or more files, and receives therefrom data identifying a plurality of attributes of the software bus application. Based on this data, the discovery application transmits, to the server, instructions to identify communicative connections established between the plurality of software applications by way of the software bus application and receives therefrom data identifying the communicative connections.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Noam Biran, Hail Tal, Aviya Aron, Robert Bitterfeld, Boris Erblat, Bary Solomon
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Patent number: 11641406Abstract: A computing system includes a database and a discovery application that initiates discovery of software applications within a managed network by probing the computing devices for applications in stalled thereon. The discovery application executes discovery patterns in an attempt to classify a discovered application and determines that the discovered application is unclassified after executing the discovery patterns. In response to determining that the discovered application is unclassified, the discovery application (i) generates a configuration item representing the discovered application without classification and (ii) selects a characteristic file containing attributes of the discovered application. The discovery application provides the characteristic file to a machine learning (ML) classifier trained using a plurality of characteristic files.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Aviya Aron, Boris Erblat, Hail Tal, Bary Solomon
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Patent number: 11616690Abstract: A discovery application on a computing system is provided. The discovery application receives a user input, which is for discovery of resources associated with a cloud operating system of a cloud computing system. The user input includes an authentication credential and account information associated with the cloud operating system. Based on the received input, the discovery application executes a discovery pattern comprising operations for the discovery of resources. The cloud operating system includes a group of services to access such resources. At least one of the operations corresponds to an API call to an API endpoint associated with a service of the group of services. The discovery application receives a response to the API call from the cloud operating system. The response includes a payload of information associated with the resources. The discovery application updates, based on the received response, one or more configuration items in a configuration management database.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Alexandra Feiguine, Tom Bar Oz, Shiri Hameiri, Hail Tal
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Patent number: 11611489Abstract: A computing system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform that manages a managed network, and a software application associated with the platform and configured to: obtain, from an external computing system, information about a function-application arranged to execute source code segment(s) on demand; determine that the obtained information relates to (i) a plurality of authorization-keys each respectively arranged to authorize on-demand execution of one of the source code segments, (ii) a first key-value string pair that enables establishment of connectivity to a service of the external computing system or of another computing system, and/or (iii) a second key-value string pair that enables establishment of connectivity to a data source of the external computing system or of another computing system, and responsively determine association(s) between the source code segment(s), the function-application, the service, and/or the data source; and store the association(s) in tType: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Noam Biran, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Bary Solomon
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Patent number: 11582106Abstract: A discovery computing system may receive an account identifier (ID) and a set of credentials required to access a first service account. The discovery computing system may transmit a first API query to a remote computing system. The discovery computing system may receive an organization identifier (ID) of the organization from the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may further transmit a second API query to the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may be further configured to receive information about a set of projects, in the organization, from the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may further generate a set of service accounts and further determine the set of resources, in the remote computing system, associated with each of the generated set of service accounts. The discovery computing system may further store the determined set of resources, as configuration items in a persistent storage.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Shiri Hameiri, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Shay Herzog, Sreenevas Subramaniam
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Patent number: 11461288Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a discovery process that enables discovery of database management systems (DBMSs) hosted by at least one client device of a client network. The disclosed discovery process involves a discovery server disposed on the client network accessing the client device hosting the DBMS to collect configuration item (CI) data on the configuration and operation of management, extraction, and replication processes of the DBMS. More specifically, this discovery process involves the discovery server requesting and receiving certain CI data from the management process of the DBMS, requesting and receiving certain CI data from an operating system (OS) of the client devices, as well as parsing and retrieving certain CI data from configuration and report files of the DBMS. Additionally, the disclosed discovery process is designed to be performed without being granted special or additional privileges within the DBMS itself.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Hail Tal, Shay Herzog, Shiri Hameiri, Tom Bar Oz
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Patent number: 11463323Abstract: Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques for identifying and classifying processes and associated applications executing in a network. All processes executing in a network may be identified using a discovery process. The processes may be clustered based on associations between the processes. Suggested application entries may then be generated based at least in part on the clusters of processes. A configuration item type and a discovery pattern may be generated for each suggested application entry. A subsequent discovery process may use the configuration item type and discovery patterns to identify associated configuration items in the network.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Hail Tal, Yuval Rimar, Qingbin Li, Leonid Suslov, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Sreenevas Subramaniam
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Patent number: 11431568Abstract: A computing system includes a database and a discovery application. The discovery application obtains credentials for accessing a server hosting a software bus application which connects a plurality of applications within a managed network. The discovery application selects, based on a pattern corresponding to the software bus application, one or more files to access, transmits, to the server, instructions to access the one or more files, and receives therefrom data identifying a plurality of attributes of the software bus application. Based on this data, the discovery application transmits, to the server, instructions to identify communicative connections established between the plurality of software applications by way of the software bus application and receives therefrom data identifying the communicative connections.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Alexandra Feiguine, Noam Biran, Hail Tal, Aviya Aron, Asaf Garty, Daniel Badyan
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Patent number: 11381448Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for synchronizing updates. A first cloud-based system may be embodied in a multi-instance or multi-tenant framework, and may provide for certain computing systems and configuration items. The first cloud-based system may include a probe system configured to retrieve a list of events from a second cloud computing system, wherein the list of events is representative of updates to resources provided by the second cloud computing system. The first cloud-based system may additionally include a sensor system configured to process the list of events to retrieve a payload for each event in the list of events. An update system may then update an updatable system included in the first cloud computing system based on the payload.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc .Inventors: Boris Erblat, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Shiri Hameiri, Alexandra Feiguine
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Patent number: 11347806Abstract: An example computing system includes a database disposed within a remote network management platform associated with a managed network that obtains service from a computing cluster that includes one or more worker nodes configured to execute containerized software applications using a containerized orchestration engine. The computing system also includes a computing device configured to identify a namespace associated with the containerized orchestration engine. The computing device is also configured to query a deployment configuration application programming interface (API) associated with a containerized application platform to obtain deployment configuration data. Further, the computing device is configured to query a build configuration API associated with the containerized application platform to obtain build configuration data.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Hail Tal, Sreenevas Subramaniam, Shay Herzog
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Patent number: 11288250Abstract: A computing system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform that manages a managed network, and server device(s) associated with the platform and configured to: transmit, to a third-party computing system, a request for general information identifying computing resources of the third-party computing system assigned to the managed network; receive, from the third-party computing system, a response indicating resource names and types of the resources that were identified; based on the response, determine that a first resource is of a first type, and responsively store, in the database, a first representation that has just data fields containing the general information from the response that identifies the first resource; and based on the response, determine that a second resource is of a second type, and responsively store, in the database, a second representation that has data fields arranged to contain specific information about the second resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Hail Tal, Yuval Rimar, Asaf Garty
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Patent number: 11281442Abstract: Persistent storage may contain software models defining corresponding software packages and entitlements to a software package, wherein use of the entitlements is constrained by entitlement rules. One or more processors may be configured to: (i) determine, by querying computing devices, a first deployment of the software package; (ii) determine, by querying an interface of a public cloud platform, a second deployment of the software package, wherein use of the entitlements on the public cloud platform is constrained by platform rules; (iii) determine, based on the constraints, an assignment of the entitlements to the first deployment and the second deployment; (iv) determine that the assignment leaves one or more deployed instances of the software package not covered by the entitlements; and (v) determine a modification to the entitlements that: satisfies the constraints and facilitates a further assignment of the entitlements that covers all deployed instances of the software package.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Hail Tal, Rohit Makhija, Prateek Bansal, Srinivas Ramanujaiah, Pallav Pant, Sumit Verma, Julian Flores, Usha Sri Ramidi, Aviya Aron, Saurabh Dewan, Sreenevas Subramaniam, Shaun Millin
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Patent number: 11277475Abstract: A computing system for automatic discovery of a storage cluster. A computing system includes a discovery server, which receives a user-input including authentication credentials associated with a storage cluster. The discovery server executes a discovery pattern comprising a sequence of operations for a discovery of a set of resources associated with the storage cluster, based on the received user-input. One of the sequence of operations may correspond to transmission of a plurality of Application Programming Interface (API) calls to an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the storage cluster. The discovery server further receives a plurality of responses from the storage cluster. The plurality of responses includes information associated with the set of resources. The discovery server further generates a dependency map between the set of resources associated with the storage cluster based on the received information and outputs the generated dependency map.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Hail Tal, Abhishek Kumar, Manish S. V. Kumar, Aditya Kumar, Purvi Dayabhai Pipaliya
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Patent number: 11263201Abstract: An example system includes persistent storage and a discovery application configured to perform operations including obtaining a uniform resource locator (URL) that addresses a function of an application programming interface (API) provided by a remote computing system of remote computing systems that provide computing resources. The function returns attributes of computing resources specified by the URL. The operations additionally include generating (i) a system-specific portion of a request that invokes execution of the function and (ii) a system-invariant portion of the request. The system-specific portion adheres to first rules adopted by the remote computing system for interacting with the API. The system-invariant portion adheres to second rules adopted by each of the remote computing systems for interacting with respective APIs thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Tom Bar Oz, Robert Bitterfeld, Boris Erblat, Aviya Aron, Asaf Garty, Daniel Badyan, Hail Tal
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Publication number: 20220029886Abstract: A discovery computing system may receive an account identifier (ID) and a set of credentials required to access a first service account. The discovery computing system may transmit a first API query to a remote computing system. The discovery computing system may receive an organization identifier (ID) of the organization from the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may further transmit a second API query to the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may be further configured to receive information about a set of projects, in the organization, from the remote computing system. The discovery computing system may further generate a set of service accounts and further determine the set of resources, in the remote computing system, associated with each of the generated set of service accounts. The discovery computing system may further store the determined set of resources, as configuration items in a persistent storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Shiri Hameiri, Hail Tal, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Shay Herzog, Sreenevas Subramaniam
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Publication number: 20220029880Abstract: A discovery application on a computing system is provided. The discovery application receives a user input, which is for discovery of resources associated with a cloud operating system of a cloud computing system. The user input includes an authentication credential and account information associated with the cloud operating system. Based on the received input, the discovery application executes a discovery pattern comprising operations for the discovery of resources. The cloud operating system includes a group of services to access such resources. At least one of the operations corresponds to an API call to an API endpoint associated with a service of the group of services. The discovery application receives a response to the API call from the cloud operating system. The response includes a payload of information associated with the resources. The discovery application updates, based on the received response, one or more configuration items in a configuration management database.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Alexandra Feiguine, Tom Bar Oz, Shiri Hameiri, Hail Tal
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Publication number: 20220021588Abstract: Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques for identifying and classifying processes and associated applications executing in a network. All processes executing in a network may be identified using a discovery process. The processes may be clustered based on associations between the processes. Suggested application entries may then be generated based at least in part on the clusters of processes. A configuration item type and a discovery pattern may be generated for each suggested application entry. A subsequent discovery process may use the configuration item type and discovery patterns to identify associated configuration items in the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Hail Tal, Yuval Rimar, Qingbin Li, Leonid Suslov, Robert Bitterfeld, Asaf Garty, Sreenevas Subramaniam
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Patent number: 11095506Abstract: A discovery application on a computing system is provided. The discovery application receives a user input, which is for discovery of resources associated with a cloud operating system of a cloud computing system. The user input includes an authentication credential and account information associated with the cloud operating system. Based on the received input, the discovery application executes a discovery pattern comprising operations for the discovery of resources. The cloud operating system includes a group of services to access such resources. At least one of the operations corresponds to an API call to an API endpoint associated with a service of the group of services. The discovery application receives a response to the API call from the cloud operating system. The response includes a payload of information associated with the resources. The discovery application updates, based on the received response, one or more configuration items in a configuration management database.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Boris Erblat, Tom Bar Oz, Hail Tal, Shay Herzog