Patents by Inventor Iain R. Frew

Iain R. Frew 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).

  • Publication number: 20120311111
    Abstract: A cloud configuration system is described herein that provides the ability to dynamically reconfigure a set of computing resources to define a cloud into multiple separate logical cloud instances. The system includes a reconfiguration tool that reads an existing system and network configuration from a configuration store, allows the user to change the configuration into multiple logical systems, performs some syntactical checks, and stores the new configuration into the configuration store. The system also includes a validation tool that imports the existing and new configurations from the configuration store, determines what devices need to be changed in the network, and enables a deployment engine to proceed with the changes. The deployment engine applies each change until all changes are completed. The validation tool can then revalidate the post-deployment changes to make sure the new inventory is recognized and no existing setting is broken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iain R. Frew, Alireza Farhangi