Patent Issued for Computing Infrastructure Scalability Assessment (USPTO 10,778,776)

2020 SEP 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent by the inventor Riesbeck, Mark (Tolland, CT), filed on September 29, 2017, was published online on September 28, 2020, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents.

Patent number 10,778,776 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, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent: “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:

“The invention claimed is:

“1. A method of assessing scalability of computing infrastructure performed by a scalability server, the method comprising: receiving, by the scalability server, growth data from one or more client devices, the growth data including growth projection of subunits of an organization; receiving, by the scalability server, application and infrastructure information from a database, the application and infrastructure information comprises a list of software applications executed by computing hardware of the computing infrastructure; determining, by the scalability server, scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information to obtain projected use conditions and determining whether each of the software applications executed by the computing hardware performs adequately under the projected use conditions, wherein the determination of whether each of the software applications executed by the computing hardware perform adequately is based on comparing projected run times of each of the software applications against a speed metric threshold; monitoring, by the scalability server, real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, wherein the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure comprises real-time utilization of servers, databases, network traffic, memory, and/or storage in the computing infrastructure; determining, by the scalability server, a priority of components of the computing infrastructure for upgrade using the scalability of the computer infrastructure and the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, wherein the components comprises the software applications and the computing hardware; generating, by the scalability server, 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; and performing, by the scalability server, real-time adjustments of the adjustment parameters to improve performance of the computing infrastructure based on the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure.

“2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: generating report data including the priority of components in the computing infrastructure for upgrade.

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

“4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the priority of components comprises one or more lists of the components ranked based on the determined priority.

“5. A scalability server for assessing scalability of computing infrastructure, the scalability server comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor configure the processor 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 comprises a list of software applications executed by computing hardware of the computing infrastructure; determine scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information to obtain projected use conditions and determining whether each of the software applications executed by the computing hardware performs adequately under the projected use conditions, wherein the determination of whether each of the software applications executed by the computing hardware perform adequately is based on comparing projected run times of each of the software applications against a speed metric threshold; monitor real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, wherein the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure includes real-time utilization of servers, databases, network traffic, memory, and/or storage in the computing infrastructure; determine a priority of components of the computing infrastructure for upgrade using the scalability of the computer infrastructure and the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, wherein the components comprises the software applications and the computing hardware; 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; and performing real-time adjustments of the adjustment parameters to improve performance of the computing infrastructure based on the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure.

“6. The server according to claim 5, wherein the processor is further configured to: generate report data including the priority of components in the computing infrastructure for upgrade.

“7. The server according to claim 5, wherein the application and infrastructure information includes information associated with each subunit of the organization.

“8. The server according to claim 5, wherein the priority of components comprises one or more lists of the components ranked based on the determined priority.

“9. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions for assessing scalability of computing infrastructure that when executed by a computer, configure the computer to perform steps 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 comprises a list of software applications executed by computing hardware of the computing infrastructure; determining scalability of the computing infrastructure using the growth data and the application and infrastructure information to obtain projected use conditions and determining whether each of the software applications executed by the computing hardware performs adequately under the projected use conditions, wherein the determination of whether each of the software applications executed by the computing hardware perform adequately is based on comparing projected run times of each of the software applications against a speed metric threshold; monitoring real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, wherein the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure includes real-time utilization of servers, databases, network traffic, memory, and/or storage in the computing infrastructure; and determining a priority of components of the computing infrastructure for upgrade using the scalability of the computer infrastructure and the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure, wherein the components comprises the software applications and the computing hardware; 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; and performing real-time adjustments of the adjustment parameters to improve performance of the computing infrastructure based on the real-time performance of the computing infrastructure.

“10. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the computer executed instructions further cause the scalability service to perform steps further comprising: generating report data including the priority of components in the computing infrastructure for upgrade.

“11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the priority of components comprises one or more lists of the components ranked based on the determined priority.”

URL and more information on this patent, see: Riesbeck, Mark. Computing Infrastructure Scalability Assessment. U.S. Patent Number 10,778,776, filed September 29, 2017, and published online on September 28, 2020. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,778,776.PN.&OS=PN/10,778,776RS=PN/10,778,776

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