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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2018
Applicant:

Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Venkatachalam Rangasamy, Fremont, CA (US);

Ashwin Kamath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Purvish Purohit, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shital Dhariya, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jay Shankar Pathak, Fremont, CA (US);

Vijaay Doraiswamy, Fremont, CA (US);

Brian J. Lillie, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 16/958 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0226 (2013.01); G06F 16/958 (2019.01); H04L 41/026 (2013.01); H04L 41/0213 (2013.01); H04L 41/042 (2013.01); H04L 41/0618 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some examples, a method includes obtaining, by a data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) agent executing on a computing device deployed by a data center provider within a first data center of a plurality of geographically-distributed data centers, an infrastructure asset data object comprising infrastructure asset data for a physical infrastructure asset of a second data center of the plurality of geographically-distributed data centers; translating, by the DCIM agent using an asset mapping table, the infrastructure asset data object to formatted infrastructure asset data, wherein the asset mapping table maps one or more properties of infrastructure asset data objects to management protocol objects or control protocol objects for one of a management protocol or control protocol; and sending, by the DCIM agent to customer equipment co-located within the first data center, the formatted infrastructure asset data in a communication that conforms to one of the management protocol or control protocol.


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