Patents by Inventor Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr.

Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr. 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: 11972289
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., William Jeffery White
  • Patent number: 11966782
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing state management services for composed information handling systems. The method includes determining that at least one control resource set is not associated with a distributed state storage system; instantiating the distributed state storage system using first additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the distributed state storage system; preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a first portion of the state management services using the distributed state storage system; determining that the at least one control resource set is not associated with an audit storage; instantiating the audit storage using second additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the audit storage; and preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a second portion of the state management services using the audit storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas L. Farley, John S. Harwood, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Gaurav Chawla, Tommi Salli, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye
  • Patent number: 11953978
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes obtaining, by a local controller associated with a DMC domain, a weighted rank order of causal services associated with a service impairment; obtaining contextual information associated with the weighted rank order of causal services; identifying top causal services based on the weighted rank order of causal services; generating, using a causal symbolic engine, a ranked order of top root causes based on the top causal services and the contextual information; selecting remediation profiles associated with the top root causes; executing remediation profiles in ranked order of the top root causes; making a determination that the remediation profiles were successful; and in response to the determination: logging the service impairment and notifying a user associated with the service impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: William Jeffery White, Said Tabet, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11874848
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for distributed data management. The method may include obtaining data descriptors for an application executing on a data host, performing a dataset policy analysis using the data descriptors to determine a data placement for a dataset associated with the application using a global name repository, performing, based on the data policy analysis, the data placement, and based on the data placement, updating the global name repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: William Jeffery White, John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230333967
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes obtaining, by a local controller associated with a DMC domain, a set of correlated services associated with an anomaly; obtaining a service dependency graph associated with the set of correlated services; generating a causal variance for each service using the correlated services and the service dependency graph; generating a weighted rank order of causal services based on the causal variance associated with each service, and the weighted rank order of causal services includes a portion of the services associated with an application associated with the anomaly; and performing remediation based on the weighted rank order of the causal services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: William Jeffery White, Said Tabet, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230333903
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes obtaining, by a local controller associated with a DMC domain, service level objective (SLO) metrics; applying the SLO metrics to a predictive anomaly detection transformer to perform anomaly detection; making a first determination that an anomaly is detected; in response to the first determination: attempting basic remediation to resolve the anomaly; making a second determination that the basic remediation is unsuccessful; in response to the second determination: making a third determination that the anomaly is associated with a silent failure; and in response to the third determination: performing service impairment isolation to obtain a collection of services correlated to the anomaly; and performing root cause analysis to identify causal services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: William Jeffery White, Said Tabet, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230333925
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes obtaining, by a local controller associated with a DMC domain, a weighted rank order of causal services associated with a service impairment; obtaining contextual information associated with the weighted rank order of causal services; identifying top causal services based on the weighted rank order of causal services; generating, using a causal symbolic engine, a ranked order of top root causes based on the top causal services and the contextual information; selecting remediation profiles associated with the top root causes; executing remediation profiles in ranked order of the top root causes; making a determination that the remediation profiles were successful; and in response to the determination: logging the service impairment and notifying a user associated with the service impairment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: William Jeffery White, Said Tabet, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR.
  • Patent number: 11748166
    Abstract: A method for managing computing resources includes obtaining, by a resource use manager, a physical asset request from a client, in response to the physical asset request: initiating allocation of a landing area device to the client based on the physical asset request, determining a physical asset to be provided to the client, sending, to a manufacturer, a physical asset preparation request, obtaining a confirmation of deployment of the physical asset from the client, performing a restoration on the physical asset using a most recent landing area incremental backup, and after the initiating the restoration, initiating a transfer of operation from the landing area device to the physical asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Reineke, Hanna Yehuda, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11728979
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing telemetry services for composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a telemetry request associated with a composed information handling system from a user associated with a group; in response to obtaining the telemetry request: identifying a telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request; aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent to obtain aggregated telemetry data; encrypting the aggregated telemetry data based on telemetry distribution information associated with the group to obtain encrypted aggregated telemetry data; and providing the encrypted aggregated telemetry data to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Elie Antoun Jreij, Susan Elizabeth Young, Edward Henry, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., Gaurav Chawla, Douglas L. Farley
  • Publication number: 20230216666
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing telemetry services for composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a telemetry request associated with a composed information handling system from a user associated with a group; in response to obtaining the telemetry request: identifying a telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request; aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent to obtain aggregated telemetry data; encrypting the aggregated telemetry data based on telemetry distribution information associated with the group to obtain encrypted aggregated telemetry data; and providing the encrypted aggregated telemetry data to the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Elie Antoun Jreij, Susan Elizabeth Young, Edward Henry, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., Gaurav Chawla, Douglas L. Farley
  • Publication number: 20230214253
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing telemetry services for composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a telemetry request associated with a composed information handling system from a user; in response to obtaining the telemetry request: identifying a transaction identifier associated with the telemetry request; identifying telemetry intent associated with the telemetry request; aggregating telemetry data based on the telemetry intent and a telemetry data map entry associated with the transaction identifier to obtain aggregated telemetry data; and providing the aggregated telemetry data to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Elie Antoun Jreij, Susan Elizabeth Young, Edward Henry, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR., Gaurav Chawla, Douglas L. Farley
  • Publication number: 20230214263
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a composition request for a composed information handling system to perform a workflow; in response to obtaining the composition request: identifying a composed system blueprint associated with the workflow; making a first determination that there are first predictive analytics associated with the composed system blueprint; in response to the first determination: identifying a composed infrastructure associated with the composed system blueprint capable of performing the workflow based on telemetry data and the first predictive analytics; instantiating a composed information handling system using the composed infrastructure to service the composition request; and setting up telemetry services for the composed information handling system using an at least one control resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Elie Antoun Jreij, Susan Elizabeth Young, Edward Henry, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR., Gaurav Chawla, Douglas L. Farley
  • Patent number: 11669315
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for using pipeline data for deploying workflows. The method may include determining that a pipeline testing trigger occurred for a workflow; decomposing a pipeline testing manifest of the workflow; generating a testing execution plan using the decomposed workflow; adding instrumentation to the testing execution plan; determining that the instrumented testing execution plan is valid; deploying computing devices within a CI/CD pipeline ecosystem for performing the instrumented testing execution plan; capturing deployment logs; initiating telemetry capture; executing pipeline testing of the workflow based on the instrumented testing execution plan; generating a pipeline deployment information set based on the pipeline testing; and providing the pipeline deployment information set to an orchestrator of a production device ecosystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, William Jeffery White, Said Tabet, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11669525
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for optimizing workflow execution. The method may include receiving an event notification at a service controller, wherein the event notification is associated with a workflow deployed in a device ecosystem; performing, based on receiving the event notification, a workflow reconfiguration action comprising: providing a first workflow portion to a first platform controller in a first domain in the device ecosystem; transmitting a workflow reconfiguration action notification to a second platform controller in a second domain of the device ecosystem; identifying, by the second platform controller and in response to receiving the workflow reconfiguration action notification, a data transfer optimization action associated with data to be transmitted from the second domain to the first domain and used during execution of the first workflow portion; and transmitting the data from the second domain to the first domain using the data transfer optimization action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., William Jeffery White
  • Patent number: 11663504
    Abstract: A method for managing pool device resources, the method comprising obtaining, by a resource use manager, a plurality of data points, generating a resource prediction model based on the plurality of data points, and initiating access to a PCI bus device operating on a pool device using a virtual switch operating on a second pool device based on the resource prediction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Reineke, James Robert King, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230119034
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for distributed data management. The method may include obtaining, by a data management agent of a data host and from an application executing on the data host, a request to access data; obtaining, by the data management agent, an information set associated with the data; making a determination, by the data management agent, that at least a portion of the data is not ready to be used by the application; and performing, by the data management agent and based on the determination, a data preparation action set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: William Jeffery White, John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR.
  • Patent number: 11630753
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows. The method may include receiving, by a global orchestrator of a device ecosystem, a request to execute a workflow; decomposing, by the global orchestrator, the workflow into a plurality of workflow portions; executing, by the global orchestrator, a metaheuristic algorithm to generate a result comprising a plurality of domains of the device ecosystem in which to execute the plurality of workflow portions; and providing, by the global orchestrator, the plurality of workflow portions to respective local orchestrators of the plurality of domains based on the result of executing the metaheuristic algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., William Jeffery White, Said Tabet
  • Patent number: 11627090
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows. The method may include receiving, at a service controller of a federated controller, a request to deploy a workflow in a device ecosystem; decomposing, by the service controller, the workflow into a plurality of workflow portions; performing, by the service controller, a search in a capabilities and constraints data construct to identify a domain in which to perform a workflow portion of the plurality of workflow portions; providing the workflow portion and workflow constraints to a platform controller in the domain; performing, by the platform controller, a subgraph similarity check to determine that a previously executed workflow portion was successfully executed on a subgraph in the domain; provisioning, by the platform controller, a set of devices in the domain based on the subgraph; and executing the workflow portion in the domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., William Jeffery White
  • Publication number: 20230102403
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing state management services for composed information handling systems. The method includes making a determination that an at least one control resource set is not associated with a distributed state storage system; and in response to the determination: identifying additional computing resources to instantiate a distributed state storage system; instantiating the distributed state storage system using the additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the distributed state storage system; and preparing the at least one control resource set to perform at state management services using the distributed state storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas L. Farley, John S. Harwood, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Gaurav Chawla, Tommi Salli, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR., Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye
  • Publication number: 20230099310
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing state management services for composed information handling systems. The method includes determining that at least one control resource set is not associated with a distributed state storage system; instantiating the distributed state storage system using first additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the distributed state storage system; preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a first portion of the state management services using the distributed state storage system; determining that the at least one control resource set is not associated with an audit storage; instantiating the audit storage using second additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the audit storage; and preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a second portion of the state management services using the audit storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas L. Farley, John S. Harwood, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Gaurav Chawla, Tommi Salli, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR., Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye