Patents by Inventor Timothy Michael JONES

Timothy Michael JONES 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).

  • Application component identification and analysis in a virtualized computing system
    Patent number: 12008392
    Abstract: An example method of application identification in a virtualized computing system having a cluster of hosts, the hosts including virtualization layers supporting virtual machines (VMs), is described. The method includes: executing, by application analysis software, process discovery agents for the VMs; receiving, at the application analysis software from the process discovery agents, process metadata describing processes executing on the VMs; generating signatures for the processes based on the process metadata; and determining components of an application based on the signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Padmaja Vrudhula, Timothy Michael Jones, Matthew David Conger-Eldeen, Nicholas Seemiller
  • APPLICATION COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230022079
    Abstract: An example method of application identification in a virtualized computing system having a cluster of hosts, the hosts including virtualization layers supporting virtual machines (VMs), is described. The method includes: executing, by application analysis software, process discovery agents for the VMs; receiving, at the application analysis software from the process discovery agents, process metadata describing processes executing on the VMs; generating signatures for the processes based on the process metadata; and determining components of an application based on the signatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Padmaja VRUDHULA, Timothy Michael JONES, Matthew David CONGER-ELDEEN, Nicholas SEEMILLER