IP Library Granted Patent US 12,047,340
Granted Patent B2
US 12,047,340 · App. 16/236,385 · Granted Jul 23, 2024

System for managing an instructure with security

Inventor: Philip Tee (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
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Patent No.
US 12,047,340
App. No.
16/236,385
Granted
Jul 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system is provided for managing an infrastructure. An extraction engine is in communication with a managed infrastructure that includes physical hardware. A signalizer engine includes one or more of an NMF engine (Non-negative matrix factorization), a k-means clustering engine (a method of vector quantization), and a topology proximity engine. The signalizer engine determines one or more common characteristics of events and produces clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the infrastructure. The signalizer engine uses graph coordinates and optionally a subset of attributes assigned to each event to generate one or more clusters to bring together events whose characteristics are similar. One or more interactive displays provide a collaborative interface coupled to the extraction and the signalizer engine with a collaborative interface (UI) for decomposing events from the infrastructure. The events are converted into words and subsets to group the events into clusters that relate to security of the managed infrastructure. In response to grouping the events physical changes are made to at least a portion of the physical hardware. In response to production of the clusters security of the managed infrastructure is maintained.

Claims (27)

1. A system for managing a managed infrastructure, comprising:

an extraction engine in communication with the managed infrastructure across an IP network at high speed and with low latency, where high speed connection is measured in gigabits and low latency is measured in microseconds;

a signalizer engine that includes one or more of an NMF engine (Non-negative matrix factorization), a k-means clustering engine (a method of vector quantization), and a topology proximity engine, the signalizer engine determining one or more common characteristics of events and producing clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the infrastructure, the signalizer engine using graph coordinates and optionally a subset of attributes assigned to each event to generate one or more clusters to bring together events whose characteristics are similar, the topology engine using a source address for each event of the managed infrastructure that represents node to node connectivity, the topology engine assigning a graph coordinate to the event with an optional subset of attributes being extracted for each event and turned into a vector;

one or more interactive displays in a situation room, the one or more interactive displays providing a collaborative interface coupled to the extraction and the signalizer engines with a collaborative interface (UI) for decomposing events from the infrastructure, the situation room coupled to or including a dashboard design system, a display computer system, and a data system;

a dashboard converter logic configured to provide communication between a graphical dashboard and one or more problem walls stored from clustering messages received from the managed infrastructure;

converting the events into words and into subsets of events used to group the events into clusters that relate to a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information of the managed infrastructure, in response to the grouping related to the failure or actionable problem in the physical hardware, physical changes are made to at least a portion of the physical hardware, wherein the physical changes comprise creating physical and virtual links between the managed infrastructure and a system server; and

wherein in response to production of the clusters security of the managed infrastructure is maintained.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein security includes at least one of managed infrastructure: breach, intrusion or propagation.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein security includes managed infrastructure: access control, intrusion detection and threat propagation.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein security includes authentication of a subject.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein security includes authentication of a subject.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein authorization specifies what a subject can do.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the security of the managed infrastructure comprises an audit.

8. The system of claim 1 , where security includes identification and authentication to ensure that only authorized subjects can access the managed infrastructure.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein security includes access approval grants to the managed infrastructure by association of users with resources that they are allowed to access, based on an authorization policy.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein machine learning is utilized to educate the system.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system learns from prior situations.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the prior situations are used to discard things that are not relevant to a situation.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the system focuses on one or more elements of a situation.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is configured to provide a summary view of a situation.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interface is configured to provide a summary view of the plurality of situations.

16. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

filtering to reduce a number of situations displayed based on attributes.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is configured to allow users to create a user post.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is configured to provide chat conversations relative to a situation.

19. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a team room that includes members.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein a situation is linked to the team room.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 6, 2023
From: EMC CORPORATION
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Reel/Frame 065179/0980 →
MERGER Recorded Oct 4, 2023
From: MOOGSOFT INC.
To: EMC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 065156/0805 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2023
From: STIFEL BANK
To: MOOGSOFT INC.
Reel/Frame 064569/0391 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 23, 2022
From: MOOGSOFT INC.
To: STIFEL BANK
Reel/Frame 058734/0193 →
Continuity (13)
Continuation In Part 15213862 · Jul 19, 2016
Continuation In Part 15213752 · Jul 19, 2016
Continuation In Part 14606946 · Jan 27, 2015
Continuation In Part 14605872 · Jan 26, 2015
Continuation In Part 14325575 · Jul 8, 2014
Continuation In Part 14325521 · Jul 8, 2014
Continuation In Part 14262890 · Apr 28, 2014
Continuation In Part 14262884 · Apr 28, 2014
Continuation In Part 14262870 · Apr 28, 2014
Continuation In Part 14262861 · Apr 28, 2014
Provisional Application 62254441 · Nov 12, 2015
Provisional Application 61816867 · Apr 29, 2013
Related Publication 20190138372A1 · May 9, 2019
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