Patents by Inventor Ryan Abrams

Ryan Abrams 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).

  • Method and system for determining configuration rules based on configurations of complex systems
    Patent number: 9177250
    Abstract: The current document discloses an automated method and system for inferring the logical rules underlying the configuration and versioning state of the components and subcomponents of a complex system, including data centers and other complex computational environments. The methods and systems employ a database of configuration information and construct an initial set of logical rules, or hypotheses, regarding system configuration. Then, using simulated annealing and a variant of genetic programming, the methods and systems disclosed in the current document carry out a search through the hypothesis state space for the system under several constrains in order to find one or more hypotheses that best explain the configuration and, when available, configuration history. The constraints include minimization of the complexity of the hypotheses and maximizing the accuracy by which the hypotheses predict observed configuration and configuration history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Moshe Zadka, Ryan Abrams, Andrew Nguyen
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION RULES BASED ON CONFIGURATIONS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20150006458
    Abstract: The current document discloses an automated method and system for inferring the logical rules underlying the configuration and versioning state of the components and subcomponents of a complex system, including data centers and other complex computational environments. The methods and systems employ a database of configuration information and construct an initial set of logical rules, or hypotheses, regarding system configuration. Then, using simulated annealing and a variant of genetic programming, the methods and systems disclosed in the current document carry out a search through the hypothesis state space for the system under several constrains in order to find one or more hypotheses that best explain the configuration and, when available, configuration history. The constraints include minimization of the complexity of the hypotheses and maximizing the accuracy by which the hypotheses predict observed configuration and configuration history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Moshe Zadka, Ryan Abrams, Andrew Nguyen