Patents by Inventor Rajiv Mordani

Rajiv Mordani 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: 20250047619
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, on-premise, or other environment, which enables categories of components and configurations to be associated with particular application instances or partitions. Resource group templates define, at a domain level, collections of deployable resources that can be referenced from resource groups. Each resource group is a named, fully-qualified collection of deployable resources that can reference a resource group template. A partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and contains one or more resource groups. Each resource group can reference a resource group template, to bind deployable resources to partition-specific values, for use by the referencing partition. A tenant of the application server or cloud environment can be associated with a partition, or applications deployed therein, for use by that tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Rajiv Mordani, Nazrul Islam, Abhijit Kumar, Timothy Quinn, Peter Bower, Lawrence Feigen, Joseph DiPol
  • Patent number: 12143308
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, on-premise, or other environment, which enables categories of components and configurations to be associated with particular application instances or partitions. Resource group templates define, at a domain level, collections of deployable resources that can be referenced from resource groups. Each resource group is a named, fully-qualified collection of deployable resources that can reference a resource group template. A partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and contains one or more resource groups. Each resource group can reference a resource group template, to bind deployable resources to partition-specific values, for use by the referencing partition. A tenant of the application server or cloud environment can be associated with a partition, or applications deployed therein, for use by that tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventors: Rajiv Mordani, Nazrul Islam, Abhijit Kumar, Timothy Quinn, Peter Bower, Lawrence Feigen, Joseph DiPol
  • Publication number: 20240348584
    Abstract: Solutions for ARP-based annotations for virtual machines. In some solutions, a hypervisor implemented in a first host might determine that a first process is executing on the first host. The hypervisor can determine first context information for the first process, generate an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request, and/or transmit a first packet comprising the ARP request and the context information to a central controller as an indication that the first process is executing on the first host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Arnold POON, Sirisha MYNENI, Rajiv MORDANI, Aditi VUTUKURI
  • Publication number: 20240297833
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Rajiv Mordani, Abhijit Kumar, Bhavanishankara Sapaliga, Sivakumar Thyagarajan, Nazrul Islam
  • Publication number: 20240205127
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method of storing operational data for network elements in a software-defined network (SDN). At metrics manager of a framework for collecting, aggregating, and storing the operational data for the SDN, the method receives, during a particular time period, a primary set of metrics collected from at least one SDN network element, and stores the first set of metrics in a volatile memory. The metrics manager uses a set of aggregation rules to aggregate the primary set of metrics into a secondary set of aggregated metrics. The metrics manager stores the secondary set of aggregated metrics in a non-volatile memory to use to monitor performance of the at least one SDN network element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Minjal Agarwal, Shivraj Shahajirao Sonawane, Ashutosh Gupta, Ranganathan Rajagopalan, Rajiv Mordani
  • Publication number: 20240205119
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method of providing operational data for network elements in a software-defined network (SDN). The method deploys a framework for collecting operational data for a set of network elements in the SDN. The framework of some embodiments includes an interface for different client applications to use in order to configure the framework to collect and aggregate the operational data based on different collection and aggregation criteria that satisfies different requirements of the different client applications. The method also deploys data collectors in the SDN that the framework configures to collect operational data from the set of network elements in the SDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Minjal Agarwal, Shivraj Shahajirao Sonawane, Ashutosh Gupta, Ranganathan Rajagopalan, Rajiv Mordani
  • Publication number: 20240202089
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method of presenting operational data from several network elements in a software-defined network (SDN). An operational data aggregator of the SDN receives a first request to view metric data for a first time period prior to a current time. The operational data aggregator presents the a first group of sets of aggregated metrics created for the first time period. The operational data aggregator also receives a second request to view metric data for a second time period prior to the current time. The operational data aggregator presents a second group of sets of aggregated metrics created for the second time period. The first group of sets of aggregated metrics has at least one aggregated metric set that is at a different aggregation granularity than all other sets of aggregated metrics in the second group of sets of aggregated metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Minjal Agarwal, Shivraj Shahajirao Sonawane, Ashutosh Gupta, Ranganathan Rajagopalan, Rajiv Mordani
  • Publication number: 20240202010
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method of providing operational data for network elements in a software-defined network (SDN). The method deploys a framework for collecting operational data for a set of network elements in the SDN. The framework of some embodiments includes an interface for different client applications to use in order to configure the framework to collect and aggregate the operational data based on different collection and aggregation criteria that satisfies different requirements of the different client applications. The method also deploys data collectors in the SDN that the framework configures to collect operational data from the set of network elements in the SDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Minjal Agarwal, Shivraj Shahajirao Sonawane, Ashutosh Gupta, Ranganathan Rajagopalan, Rajiv Mordani
  • Patent number: 12009999
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajiv Mordani, Abhijit Kumar, Bhavanishankara Sapaliga, Sivakumar Thyagarajan, Nazrul Islam
  • Patent number: 11997120
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for detecting a threat to a datacenter. The method receives a set of connections between a set of DCNs in the datacenter over a particular time period. The set of DCNs includes at least a first DCN at which a first anomalous event was detected. The method analyzes a set of detected anomalous events to identify additional anomalous events detected at other DCNs in the set of DCNs during the particular time period. Based on the first anomalous event and identified additional anomalous events, the method determines whether the anomalous events indicate a threat to the datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Tejas Sanjeev Panse, Aditi Vutukuri, Arnold Koon-Chee Poon, Rajiv Mordani, Margaret Petrus
  • Publication number: 20240152376
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a connection server that handles a connection between a network management system in a public cloud and a datacenter belonging to a datacenter group managed by the network management system. The method receives an API request, having a first format, for a local network manager located at the datacenter. The method translates the API request into a second format used by the connection between the network management system and the datacenter. The connection is a type that (i) allows for the connection server to push data onto the connection when the connection is initiated by a connection agent at the datacenter and (ii) uses the second format. The method sends the translated API request in the second format to the connection agent via the connection. The connection agent translates the API request into the first format for execution at the local network manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Sudipta Biswas, Rajiv Mordani, Aditya Prakash Vaja, Monotosh Das
  • Publication number: 20240154878
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for providing a visualization of data flows for a logical network spanning a group of datacenters. The method receives a selection of a particular datacenter in the group of datacenters for which to display a flow visualization. The method generates a flow visualization for the particular datacenter including (i) representations of data flows between pairs of logical network compute nodes located within the particular datacenter, (ii) representations of data flows between logical network compute nodes located within the particular datacenter and logical network compute nodes at other datacenters in the group of datacenters, and (iii) representations of data flows between logical network compute nodes located within the particular datacenter and endpoints external to the group of datacenters. The method displays the generated flow visualization within a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Sunitha Krishna, Rajiv Mordani, Radha Popuri, Bofeng Hu, Suresh Nagar, Yili Zou
  • Publication number: 20240154865
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a connection server that handles connections between a network management system in a public cloud and datacenters managed by the network management system. The method receives (i) a first application programming interface (API) request for a first local network manager located at a first datacenter belonging to a first datacenter group of a first tenant and (ii) a second API request for a second local network manager located at a second datacenter belonging to a second datacenter group of a second tenant. Based on site identifiers respectively associated with the first and second datacenters and included in the first and second API requests, the method respectively sends the first and second API requests to the first and second local network managers via first and second connections previously initiated by the first and second local network managers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Sudipta Biswas, Rajiv Mordani, Aditya Prakash Vaja, Monotosh Das
  • Publication number: 20240152379
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for generating microsegmentation recommendations, performed by a network monitoring service implemented in a public cloud to monitor data flows for a group of datacenters. The method receives a selection of a set of logical network compute nodes (LNCNs) located at a particular datacenter for which to generate recommended rules. The method analyzes flows collected by the network monitoring service in order to generate a set of recommended rules relating to the set of LNCNs. The method provides the set of rules to a local manager at the particular datacenter for the local manager to configure network elements at the particular datacenter to enforce the set of rules. The rules use compute node identifiers for LNCNs located at the particular datacenter and network addresses for LNCNs located at other datacenters as the local manager does not store data regarding compute nodes located at the other datacenters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Sunitha Krishna, Rajiv Mordani, Radha Popuri, Yaqi Wang, Yiwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11949660
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for enabling enhanced firewall rules via ARP-based annotations is described. In an embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a hypervisor implemented in a first host, that a first process is executing on the first host. The hypervisor determines first context information for the first process, generates a first request, encapsulates the first request and the first context information in a first packet, and transmits the first packet to a central controller to cause the central controller to update the controller's table to indicate that the first process is executing on the first host. In response to receiving a second packet from the central controller and determining that the second packet comprises a first response, the hypervisor extracts second context information from the second packet and, based on the second context information, determines that a second process is executing on a second host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Poon, Sirisha Myneni, Rajiv Mordani, Aditi Vutukuri
  • Publication number: 20240031246
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method for receiving a plurality of attribute sets from a set of host computers, each attribute set associated with a group of one or more flows that is created by using a key to associate individual flows into the group of flows. The appliance, in some embodiments, merges two identified attribute sets into one merged attribute set and analyzes the merged attribute set to identify a set of properties of the flows in the groups of flows associated with the two attribute sets. In some embodiments, a visualization process includes identifying machines as members of groups and identifying machines that are connected. The visualization process, in some embodiments, also generates a graphical user interface that can be used to select groups of machines, domains, or individual machines and displays contextual attributes relevant to the selected group, domain, or machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rajiv Mordani, Shankar Vilayannur Natarajan, Suresh Nagar, Ashish Patel, Vinith Podduturi, Tea Liukkonen-Olmiala, Vaishnavi Ramamoorthy, Ashish Shendure
  • Patent number: 11880679
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting patching in a multi-tenant application server environment. The system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by that tenant, wherein a partition is a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of a domain. A patching process can take advantage of high-availability features provided by an application server clustering environment, to apply patches in a controlled, rolling restart, which maintains a domain's ability to operate without interruption, or with zero downtime. The process can be used to automate complex or long running tasks, including preserving an unpatched or prior version of an application server, application, or other software component for possible rollback, or providing automatic reversion in the event of an unrecoverable error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nazrul Islam, Jacob Lindholm, Josh Dorr, Christopher Kasso, Yamini K Balasubramanyam, Steven Liu, Rajiv Mordani, Abhijit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240004689
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance and providing visual representations of the data to a user. Some embodiments provide a visual representation of the collected data that allows a user to select a set of machines and flows and initiate recommendation generation based on the selected machines and flows. The recommendation generation, in some embodiments, includes identifying flows for which rules have not been defined and filtering the identified rules to remove flows for which rules should not be defined. Some embodiments use the identified rues to identify services and groups associated with the rules and generate recommendations for rules, groups and services based on the identified flows, groups and services. The recommendations, in some embodiments, are implemented as a single PATCH API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Sunitha Krishna, Kausum Kumar, Rajiv Mordani, Ashish Shendure, Ashish Patel, Farzad Ghannadian
  • Patent number: 11831667
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for detecting a threat to a datacenter. The method generates a graph of connections between data compute nodes (DCNs) in the datacenter. Each connection has an associated time period during which the connection is active. The method receives an anomalous event occurring during a particular time period at a particular DCN operating in the datacenter. The method analyzes the generated graph to determine a set of paths between DCNs in the datacenter that include connections to the particular DCN during the particular time period. The method uses the set of paths to identify a threat to the datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Tejas Sanjeev Panse, Aditi Vutukuri, Arnold Koon-Chee Poon, Rajiv Mordani, Margaret Petrus
  • Patent number: 11792151
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for identifying security threats to a datacenter. The method receives flow attribute sets for multiple flows from multiple host computers in the datacenter on which data compute nodes (DCNs) execute. Each flow attribute set indicates at least a source DCN for the flow. The method identifies flow attribute sets that correspond to DCNs responding to name resolution requests. For each DCN of a set of DCNs executing on the host computers, the method determines whether the DCN has sent responses to name resolution requests in a manner that deviates from a historical baseline for the DCN based on the identified flow attribute sets. When a particular DCN has sent responses to name resolution requests in a manner that deviates from a historical baseline for the particular DCN, the method identifies the particular DCN as a security threat to the datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Tejas Sanjeev Panse, Aditi Vutukuri, Arnold Koon-Chee Poon, Rajiv Mordani, Margaret Petrus