Patents by Inventor Nicholas A. Hansen

Nicholas A. Hansen 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).

  • Patent number: 11218361
    Abstract: A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product for enabling management of a converged infrastructure are disclosed. A method may include determining components of the converged infrastructure whose configurations need to be modified in order to modify the configuration of the converged infrastructure in accordance with a received command to modify the configuration of the converged infrastructure. The method may also include modifying the configuration of each of the determined components to modify the configuration of the converged infrastructure in accordance with the received command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Todd J. Dolinsky, Jonathan Fontanez, Nicholas A. Hansen, Joshua L. Bonczkowski
  • Patent number: 10291616
    Abstract: A resource authorization system includes an authorization routing service that is executed on a computing device to authenticate a client to form a client login session, and to receive, from the client, a request to establish a connection to one or more of the resources of a distributed computing system. The authorization routing service then obtains a list of the resources associated with the client login session in which the list of resources includes those that the client is authorized to communicate with. When the requested resource is included in the list of resources, the authorization routing service authenticates the requested resources to form a resource login session, and establish the connection by communicatively coupling the client login session and the resource login session. The resource login session is established independently of the client login session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Streete, Joshua L. Bonczkowski, Nicholas A. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10055336
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for testing a software component by simulating an interface to a computing component using pseudo-randomized responses to service requests. For example, the method may include receiving a service request from a software component to be tested. Responsive to receiving the service request from the software component, the method accesses a data store of service requests and responses thereto. The method determines that a matching service request is stored in the accessed data, a matching service request being a service request that matches the service request received from the software component. The method identifies a plurality of associated responses that are stored in the accessed data store, each which is stored in association with the matching service request. The method pseudo-randomly selects one of the plurality of associated responses, and sends the pseudo-randomly selected associated response to the software component for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Steven R Hart, Nicholas A Hansen, Joshua L Bonczkowski, Pierre Ancelot
  • Patent number: 9916225
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for testing a software component by simulating a computing component interface using captured network packet information. A method may include receiving a service request comprised of one or more network packets from a software component to be tested. Responsive to receiving the service request, the method may access a data store of captured network packet information and determine that a matching service request is stored in the accessed data store. The matching service request may be comprised of one or more network packets that match the service request. The method may identify an associated response that is stored in the accessed data store. The associated response may be one or more network packets that are stored in association with the matching service request. The method then sends the associated response to the first software component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Joshua L Bonczkowski, Nicholas A Hansen, Steven R Hart, Pierre Ancelot
  • Patent number: 9854002
    Abstract: An application centric compliance management system includes a computing system that executes a tool to identify a subset of a the resources of a multi-tier computing environment that are used to execute an application, and for each identified resource, obtain one or more application-based compliance policies associated with the application. The tool may then determine whether the resource meets each application-based compliance policy, and when the resource does not meet the application-based compliance policy, generate an alarm that includes information associated with the one unmet application-based compliance policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: VCE Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Streete, Nicholas A. Hansen, Todd Dolinsky, Christopher M. Davis
  • Patent number: 9774600
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for managing infrastructure elements in a network system are disclosed. According to one example, the method includes establishing, for an application managed by a system administrator, an application control configuration that designates administrative access to infrastructure elements supporting a plurality of workload services that executes the application. The method further includes detecting a modification to the application that causes one or more of the workload services to be transferred to at least one auxiliary infrastructure element and updating, in response to the detected modification, the application control configuration such that the administrative access is revised to enable the system administrator to manage each of the infrastructure elements supporting the workload services executing the modified application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: VCE IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Streete, Nicholas A. Hansen
  • Patent number: 9485145
    Abstract: A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a configuration of a converged infrastructure are disclosed. A method may include performing a scan of network addresses for components of the converged infrastructure. The method may further include capturing fingerprints of components discovered by the scan. The method may additionally include identifying the components discovered by the scan based at least in part on a comparison between each captured fingerprint and one or more known component fingerprints in a fingerprint library, which may include a set of known component fingerprints and associated component identities. The method may further include accessing at least one identified component. The method may also include determining a component configuration of each of at least one accessed component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: VCE Company, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Bonczkowski, Nicholas A. Hansen, Matthew Molner
  • Patent number: 9325688
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for performing workflow credential information management in a converged infrastructure system (CIS) are disclosed. According to one example, the method includes, at a credential management interface module (CMIM) associated with a CIS, identifying one or more converged infrastructure elements (CIEs) included in the CIS that are associated with a workflow, obtaining credential information sets for each of the one or more CIEs associated with the workflow, and executing the workflow using the obtained credential information sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: VCE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas A Hansen, Jonathan P Streete, Todd J Dolinsky, Joshua Lee Bonczkowski
  • Publication number: 20150172117
    Abstract: A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product for enabling management of a converged infrastructure are disclosed. A method may include determining components of the converged infrastructure whose configurations need to be modified in order to modify the configuration of the converged infrastructure in accordance with a received command to modify the configuration of the converged infrastructure. The method may also include modifying the configuration of each of the determined components to modify the configuration of the converged infrastructure in accordance with the received command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: VCE Company, LLC
    Inventors: Todd J. Dolinsky, Jonathan Fontanez, Nicholas A. Hansen, Joshua L. Bonczkowski