US 10,320,922 B1Granted

Inventory manager for distributed systems

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAmjad Hussain, Sivaprasad Venkata Padisetty, Emily Grace Aimette Freebairn, Steven Merlin Twitchell

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Abstract

Mechanisms are presented by which a customer of a resource provider can determine information about the portions of shared resources that are allocated to the customer. The information can include, for example, the software, operating systems software versions, software updates, software patches, and other such packages installed and/or executing on the various resources. In at least some embodiments, a customer can select one of a set of predefined actions that enables the customer to query the allocations, or resource instances, to obtain the information, such as through a series of inventory reports stored to a central location. In at least some embodiments the information can be obtained using a set of gatherers each configured to obtain a specific type of information.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a plurality of computing resources, at least one of the plurality of computing devices including a processor and a memory;
a plurality of gatherers, each of the gatherers capable of executing on a respective computing resource of the plurality of computing resources allocated to a user, gathering a respective type of information at a specified time, and rejecting the information that does not conform to a specified format;
a user interface providing access to the system on behalf of the user;
and
a system manager configured to receive a request via the user interface, the request specifying a subset of the computing resources from which to obtain one or more types of information, the subset of the computing resources including a plurality of virtual machines allocated to the user, the system manager further configured to determine a subset of the plurality of gatherers for obtaining the one or more types of information from the subset of the computing resources, the one or more types of information relating at least to operating systems installed on the subset of computing resources, the system manager further configured to store inventory reports generated by the subset of the plurality of gatherers into a user-accessible location from which the user can access the inventory reports via the user interface.

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A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
determine installation information to be obtained for a set of resources allocated to a user, the installation information relating at least to software installed on the set of resources;
determine a set of gatherers for obtaining the installation information, each gatherer of the set of gatherers configured to obtain at least a portion of the installation information;
cause each gatherer of the set of gatherers to be executed at a specified time using the set of resources, at least one of the set of gatherers rejecting a portion of the installation information that is not in a specified format, each gatherer of the set of gatherers generating a respective data set representing a respective portion of the installation information;
and
provide access to the installation information from a user-accessible location to which the respective data set from each gatherer of the set of gatherers is stored.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/192,855Filed 24 Jun 2016 · us provisional application
Priority: 28 Mar 2016
Granted: 11 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04L 41/5051
Characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service: service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services…
G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06F 9/45533
Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines:…
G06F 11/00
Error detection

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Application62/314,067Us provisional application · filed 28 Mar 2016
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