International Business Machines Corporation

Amrit Tsering Williams

Peter Benjamin Loer

Dennis Sidney Goodrow

Gregory Mitchell Toto

Benjamin John Kus

James B Evans

Jonathan S Fan

Jason E Mealins

A client hypervisor comprises a virtual agent that runs outside of a system OS and that allows device management independent of the OS and user. The virtual agent is tied to a device and not a specific instance of the OS. Such client hypervisors expose new functionality to ease managing systems. Some of these capabilities come from the persistence and privileges outside the OS. In some embodiments of the invention, this new management functionality is exposed to allow device management via new virtualization concepts, such as multiple VMs per system, VM replacement, snapshot/rollback, etc.

Endpoint-hosted hypervisor management

An embodiment of the invention provides a technique that extends relevance-based computation to include computation based on information accessed from or exchanged with other agents. Mechanisms are provided by which an agent accesses or exchanges information between or among other agents and may include one or more of: central bulletin board, broadcast, direct request&#x2014;pull, direct request&#x2014;push, and server-routed. Architectural models of distributed decision making to facilitate a distributed and policy-based management of IT infrastructure are provided.

Method and apparatus for distributed policy-based management and computed relevance messaging with remote attributes

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Alamo, CA, United States of America

Amrit Tsering Williams