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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2017
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques disclosed herein provide an approach for automatically importing graphical topologies and deploying the same. In one embodiment, a topology importer tool uses a trained machine learning model to detect and classify objects in an image depicting a topology. The topology importer distinguishes between software (or hardware) components in the detected objects and properties of those components. In particular, the topology importer may determine a property is associated with a component based on an overlap between objects representing the property and the component, a distance between the objects representing the property and the component, or a learned model. The topology importer determines relationships between components in a similar manner, as well as based on detected links represented by objects between components indicating those components are connected. The topology importer further converts the topology to a format understood by an application which may then deploy the topology.