Pivotal Software Assigned Two Patents

Health monitoring for cloud computing
Pivotal Software, Inc. (acquired by VMware, Inc.), San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,188,435) developed by Alston, Amber Lynn, Lakewood, CO, Sullivan, Robert James, Denver, CO, and Gates, Kevin, Berkeley, CA, for a “health monitoring for cloud computing platforms.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a health monitoring system for a cloud application platform. One of the methods includes deploying, by a health monitoring application of a cloud application platform that provisions resources from an underlying cloud infrastructure system, probes for testing components of the cloud application platform. Each probe is configured to perform tests that measure performance of a component of the cloud application platform. A probe can attempt to provision resources from the underlying cloud infrastructure system by launching a test application on the cloud application platform and determine whether the test application launched successfully using resources from the underlying cloud infrastructure system. The health monitoring application receives results of the tests and provides, for display in a graphical user interface, a representation of a history of the results of the tests for at least one of the components.”

The patent application was filed on November 30, 2018 (16/206,865).

Precisely tracking memory usage in multi-process computing environment
Pivotal Software, Inc. (acquired by VMware, Inc.), San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,188,233) developed by Rahman, Mohammad Foyzur, Caragea, George Constantin, San Mateo, CA, Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos, San Jose, CA, and Petropoulos, Michail, San Francisco, CA, for “precisely tracking memory usage in multi-process computing environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking memory usage. One of the methods includes implementing an instance of a memory usage tracker (MUT) in each process running in a node of a computer system. The MUT initiates a free process for a memory chunk. A current generation of the memory chunk is determined. The MUT determines whether the mapping element’s generation precedes the current generation. If the mapping element’s generation is old, the MUT treats the long-living rollover account as the owner of the memory chunk to be freed and if the current generation and the mapping element’s generation match, then the MUT considers the owner associated with the mapping element as the owner of the chunk. The MUT then adjusts the balance of the determined memory account and/or sub-account and the balance of the mapping element by the freed memory amount.”

The patent application was filed on February 7, 2020 (16/785,126).