“Computing Infrastructure Scalability Assessment” in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20190104183)

2019 APR 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent application by the inventor Riesbeck, Mark (Tolland, CT), filed on September 29, 2017, was made available online on April 4, 2019, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents.

This patent application is assigned to Aetna Inc. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States).

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Enterprise systems include servers, storage and associated software deployed in a large scale that may serve as an information technology (IT) infrastructure for businesses, governments, or other large organizations. Enterprise systems manage large volumes of data and are designed to offer and provide high levels of transaction performance and data security. These systems are also designed to support business processes, information flows, data analytics, and other functions. Enterprise systems include various individual system assets and resources. The IT infrastructure including these system assets and resources may be upgraded by adding and/or replacing hardware and/or software resources.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “An embodiment of the disclosure provides a method of assessing scalability of a computing infrastructure performed by a scalability server, the scalability server comprising a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, so that when the instructions are executed, the server performs the method comprising: (a) receiving growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; (b) receiving application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information including a list of application and infrastructure resources of the computing infrastructure; © determining scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information; (d) monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure; and (e) determining a priority of infrastructure components to be upgraded using the scalability of the computer infrastructure, the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, the growth data, and the application and infrastructure information.

“Another embodiment of the disclosure provides a scalability server for assessing scalability of a computing infrastructure, the scalability server comprising a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, so that when the instructions are executed, the server is configured to: (a) receive growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; (b) receive application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information including a list of application and infrastructure resources of the computing infrastructure; © determine scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information; (d) monitor real-time performance of the computing infrastructure; and (e) determine a priority of infrastructure components to be upgraded using the scalability of the computer infrastructure, the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, the growth data, and the application and infrastructure information.

“Yet another embodiment of the disclosure provides a non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions for causing a scalability server to assess scalability of a computing infrastructure by: (a) receiving growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; (b) receiving application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information including a list of application and infrastructure resources of the computing infrastructure; © determining scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information; (d) monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure; and (e) determining a priority of infrastructure components to be upgraded using the scalability of the computer infrastructure, the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, the growth data, and the application and infrastructure information.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A method of assessing scalability of a computing infrastructure performed by a scalability server, the scalability server comprising a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, so that when the instructions are executed, the server performs the method comprising: receiving growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; receiving application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information including a list of application and infrastructure resources of the computing infrastructure; determining scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information; monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure; and determining a priority of infrastructure components to be upgraded using the scalability of the computer infrastructure and the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure.

“2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: generating report data including the priority of infrastructure components in the computing infrastructure to be upgraded, wherein the infrastructure components include software applications.

“3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: generating adjustment parameters for the computing infrastructure, wherein the adjustment parameters are settings to tweak, allocate, and divide current resources in the computing infrastructure to meet future growth demands according to the growth data.

“4. The method according to claim 1, wherein monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure includes determining real-time utilization of servers, databases, network traffic, memory, and/or storage in the computing infrastructure.

“5. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining scalability of the computing infrastructure includes using the growth data to obtain new conditions and determining whether applications in the computing infrastructure will perform well under the new conditions.

“6. The method according to claim 5, wherein at least one of a speed metric and a threshold is used to determine whether an application in the computing infrastructure performs well.

“7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application and infrastructure information includes information associated with each subunit of the organization.

“8. A scalability server for assessing scalability of a computing infrastructure, the scalability server comprising a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, so that when the instructions are executed, the server is configured to: receive growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; receive application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information including a list of application and infrastructure resources of the computing infrastructure; determine scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information; monitor real-time performance of the computing infrastructure; and determine a priority of infrastructure components to be upgraded using the scalability of the computer infrastructure and the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure.

“9. The server according to claim 8, further configured to: generate report data including the priority of infrastructure components in the computing infrastructure to be upgraded, wherein the infrastructure components include software applications.

“10. The server according to claim 8, further configured to: generate adjustment parameters for the computing infrastructure, wherein the adjustment parameters are settings to tweak, allocate, and divide current resources in the computing infrastructure to meet future growth demands according to the growth data.

“11. The server according to claim 8, wherein monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure includes determining real-time utilization of servers, databases, network traffic, memory, and/or storage in the computing infrastructure.

“12. The server according to claim 8, wherein determining scalability of the computing infrastructure includes using the growth data to obtain new conditions and determining whether applications in the computing infrastructure will perform well under the new conditions.

“13. The server according to claim 12, wherein at least one of a speed metric and a threshold is used to determine whether an application in the computing infrastructure performs well.

“14. The server according to claim 8, wherein the application and infrastructure information includes information associated with each subunit of the organization.

“15. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions for causing a scalability server to assess scalability of a computing infrastructure by: receiving growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; receiving application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information including a list of application and infrastructure resources of the computing infrastructure; determining scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information; monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure; and determining a priority of infrastructure components to be upgraded using the scalability of the computer infrastructure and the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure.

“16. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, further causing the scalability server to assess scalability by: generating report data including the priority of infrastructure components in the computing infrastructure to be upgraded, wherein the infrastructure components include software applications.

“17. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, further causing the scalability server to assess scalability by: generating adjustment parameters for the computing infrastructure, wherein the adjustment parameters are settings to tweak, allocate, and divide current resources in the computing infrastructure to meet future growth demands according to the growth data.

“18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure includes determining real-time utilization of servers, databases, network traffic, memory, and/or storage in the computing infrastructure.

“19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein determining scalability of the computing infrastructure includes using the growth data to obtain new conditions and determining whether applications in the computing infrastructure will perform well under the new conditions.

“20. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 19, wherein at least one of a speed metric and a thresholds is used to determine whether an application in the computing infrastructure performs well.”

URL and more information on this patent application, see: Riesbeck, Mark. Computing Infrastructure Scalability Assessment. Filed September 29, 2017 and posted April 4, 2019. Patent URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220190104183%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20190104183&RS=DN/20190104183

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