Patents by Inventor Kristiann J. Schultz
Kristiann J. Schultz 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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Patent number: 10244081Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rema Ananthanarayanan, Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Praveen Jayachandran, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Kristiann J. Schultz, Akshat Verma, Balaji Viswanathan, Xiaolan Zhang
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Publication number: 20180189088Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for attaching a pluggable agent to a virtual machine (VM) in a networked computing environment. In an embodiment, a VM is provisioned with a base operating system. This base operating system is a base operating system that has a file system that is adapted to run any of a plurality of agents. In response to a request for the VM to perform a service, an agent file template of an agent that is configured to perform the service on the VM is obtained. This agent is installed on the VM by modifying the file system of the provisioned base operating system to include a set of files in the agent file template.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Li Long Chen, Kristiann J. Schultz
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Publication number: 20170318128Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Rema Ananthanarayanan, Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Praveen Jayachandran, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Kristiann J. Schultz, Akshat Verma, Balaji Viswanathan, Xiaolan Zhang
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Patent number: 9742873Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Rema Ananthanarayanan, Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Praveen Jayachandran, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Kristiann J. Schultz, Akshat Verma, Balaji Viswanathan, Xiaolan Zhang
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Patent number: 9729623Abstract: A conformance checker is received on a system that contains hostable content, and is executed. One or more results provided by the conformance checker are evaluated; and the hostable content is migrated to a destination host in accordance with the evaluating step.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yun-Wu Huang, Pu Jin, Fan Jing Meng, Michael Montinarelli, Kristiann J. Schultz, Bo Yang, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
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Patent number: 9632814Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Milton A. Bonilla, Florian Graf, David Kohen, Brian Peterson, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, John J. Rofrano, Kristiann J. Schultz, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
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Publication number: 20160110215Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Milton A. Bonilla, Florian Graf, David Kohen, Brian Peterson, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, John J. Rofrano, Kristiann J. Schultz, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
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Patent number: 9292330Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Milton A. Bonilla, Florian Graf, David Kohen, Brian Peterson, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, John J. Rofrano, Kristiann J. Schultz, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
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Publication number: 20150261842Abstract: One or more requirements of a target hosting environment are captured in a specification. The specification is automatically checked against a source content of a source environment with a conformance checker, where the source content is to be migrated to the target hosting environment. It is determined whether the source content conforms to the specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yun-Wu Huang, Pu Jin, Fan Jing Meng, Michael Montinarelli, Brian Peterson, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, John J. Rofrano, Kristiann J. Schultz, Bo Yang, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
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Publication number: 20150264128Abstract: A conformance checker is received on a system that contains hostable content, and is executed. One or more results provided by the conformance checker are evaluated; and the hostable content is migrated to a destination host in accordance with the evaluating step.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yun-Wu Huang, Pu Jin, Fan Jing Meng, Michael Montinarelli, Kristiann J. Schultz, Bo Yang, Christopher C. Young, Xiaolan Zhang
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Publication number: 20140149492Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Rema Ananthanarayanan, Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Praveen Jayachandran, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Kristiann J. Schultz, Akshat Verma, Balaji Viswanathan, Xiaolan Zhang
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Patent number: 8510735Abstract: A system for virtualizing information technology (IT) appliances can include an IT appliance hosting facilities software. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can be implemented at a layer of abstraction above a virtual machine host, which is implemented in a layer of abstraction above a hardware layer of a computing system. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can include programmatic code functioning as virtualized hardware upon which a set of IT appliance software modules are able to concurrently run. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can provide caching, application level security, and a standardized framework for running the IT appliance software modules, which are configured in conformance with the standardized framework.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ahmed Abbas, Helmut Weber, Kristiann J. Schultz
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Patent number: 8392919Abstract: A system for virtualizing information technology (IT) appliances can include an IT appliance hosting facilities software. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can be implemented at a layer of abstraction above a virtual machine host, which is implemented in a layer of abstraction above a hardware layer of a computing system. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can include programmatic code functioning as virtualized hardware upon which a set of IT appliance software modules are able to concurrently run. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can provide caching, application level security, and a standardized framework for running the IT appliance software modules, which are configured in conformance with the standardized framework.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ahmed Abbas, Helmut Weber, Kristiann J. Schultz
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Publication number: 20120174115Abstract: A system for virtualizing information technology (IT) appliances can include an IT appliance hosting facilities software. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can be implemented at a layer of abstraction above a virtual machine host, which is implemented in a layer of abstraction above a hardware layer of a computing system. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can include programmatic code functioning as virtualized hardware upon which a set of IT appliance software modules are able to concurrently run. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can provide caching, application level security, and a standardized framework for running the IT appliance software modules, which are configured in conformance with the standardized framework.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: AHMED ABBAS, HELMUT WEBER, KRISTIANN J. SCHULTZ
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Publication number: 20100205601Abstract: A system for virtualizing information technology (IT) appliances can include an IT appliance hosting facilities software. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can be implemented at a layer of abstraction above a virtual machine host, which is implemented in a layer of abstraction above a hardware layer of a computing system. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can include programmatic code functioning as virtualized hardware upon which a set of IT appliance software modules are able to concurrently run. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can provide caching, application level security, and a standardized framework for running the IT appliance software modules, which are configured in conformance with the standardized framework.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2009Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: AHMED ABBAS, HELMUT WEBER, KRISTIANN J. SCHULTZ