CA Assigned Three Patents

Hand-offs in cloud environments
CA, Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,088,575) developed by Diwakar, Kiran Prakash, Maharashtra, India, for a “system and method for hand-offs in cloud environments.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium for handling hand-offs in a cloud computing environment is provided. The method includes identifying, at a cloud governance module of a server device, a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of servers belonging to a plurality of cloud computing service providers. The method includes determining, based upon information in a policy module, to hand-off an execution of at least one identified application executing on a first cloud computing service provider platform to a second cloud computing service provider, determining whether the second cloud computing service provider satisfies one or more governance policies associated with the at least one identified application, and handing-off the execution of the at least one identified application to a second cloud computing provider platform based upon the second cloud computing provider being compliant with the one or more governance policies associated with the at least one identified application.“

The patent application was filed on February 12, 2014 (14/179,249).

Automated filer technique for use in virtualized appliances and applications
CA, Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,087,076) developed by Nickolov, Peter, San Clemente, CA, Kalev, Leonid, Haifa, Israel, Tessler, Eric W., Aliso Viejo, CA, for a “automated filer technique for use in virtualized appliances and applications.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating manipulation of virtualized storage volumes and/or file systems of one or more different types of operating systems (OSs) implemented on distributed computer systems. According to different embodiments, various aspects may be directed to different embodiments of virtualized filer appliances and/or filer applications which may be used for facilitating manipulation of virtualized storage volumes and/or file systems of one or more different types of operating systems (OSs) implemented on distributed computer systems. In at least one embodiment, a filer appliance may be implemented as a virtual appliance that includes functionality for performing automated file-level and/or volume-level operations for a selected set of file systems. In one embodiment, a filer appliance may be implemented as a virtual machine which is configured or designed to handle managing of one or more volumes. In one embodiment, the filer appliance may include one or more virtual interfaces for interfacing with one or more virtual volumes and/or one or more other virtual appliances, virtual applications, etc. Various other techniques are disclosed herein for facilitating dynamic and automated configuration of virtual appliances implemented at distributed computing systems.“

The patent application was filed on January 23, 2013 (13/747,588).

Maintaining change map of block level storage device
CA, Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,087,004) developed by Korlepara, Pavan Kumar, Hyderabad, India, for a “maintaining a change map of a block level storage device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Maintaining a change map of a block storage device includes intercepting a change message from an application. The change message is intercepted by a change tracking engine. The change message requests a change to a logical block of the block storage device. The change is recorded in a first copy of the change map. The change is recorded the change in a second copy of the change map.“

The patent application was filed on June 27, 2006 (11/426,640).