Patents by Inventor Ian Fraser Watts

Ian Fraser Watts 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).

  • Two-way synchronization of infrastructure-as-code templates and instances
    Patent number: 12001837
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for two-way synchronization of infrastructure-as-code templates and instances, including a method comprising detecting changes to a run-time state of a system and, in response to detecting a change, triggering an update of a current run-time state model. The method may further comprise, in response to updating the run-time state model, comparing the updated model to a current model using a template in a local repository instantiated as the current model. The method may further comprise, in response to the comparison determining a structural difference between the updated model and the current model, merging the updated model and the current model into a new model; and updating a local clone of a repository of the template with the new model. The method may further comprise, in response to the comparison determining no structural difference between the updated model and the current model, pushing changes to a remote repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Wigglesworth, Miguel Angel Jimenez Achinte, Gabriel Tamura, Hans Albert Muller, Ian Fraser Watts, Hugh Edward Hockett
  • TWO-WAY SYNCHRONIZATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE TEMPLATES AND INSTANCES
    Publication number: 20230297366
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for two-way synchronization of infrastructure-as-code templates and instances, including a method comprising detecting changes to a run-time state of a system and, in response to detecting a change, triggering an update of a current run-time state model. The method may further comprise, in response to updating the run-time state model, comparing the updated model to a current model using a template in a local repository instantiated as the current model. The method may further comprise, in response to the comparison determining a structural difference between the updated model and the current model, merging the updated model and the current model into a new model; and updating a local clone of a repository of the template with the new model. The method may further comprise, in response to the comparison determining no structural difference between the updated model and the current model, pushing changes to a remote repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Wigglesworth, Miguel Jimenez, Gabriel Tamura, Hans Albert Muller, Ian Fraser Watts, Hugh Edward Hockett
  • PROBE DEPLOYMENT
    Publication number: 20230229469
    Abstract: A method includes generating, by a computing device, a probe; deploying, by the computing device, the probe into a virtual machine hosting a cloud application; increasing, by the computing device, resource consumption by the probe; collecting, by the computing device, performance data from the cloud application; and training, by the computing device, a machine learning model using the performance data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Wigglesworth, Yar Rouf, Joydeep Mukherjee, Marin Litoiu, Ian Fraser Watts, Eugen Postea, Radu Bogdan Mateescu