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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:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

George Africa, Sydney, AU;

Jianwen Chen, Oatley, AU;

Michael A. Shallcross, Cronulla, AU;

Hsiao C. Thio, Palatine, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01); H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04L 41/085 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0853 (2013.01); H04L 41/0856 (2013.01); H04L 41/0873 (2013.01); H04L 41/0886 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 41/5096 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and associated systems for capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data. A processor of a service-management system intercepts a service request requesting that the hybrid cloud's orchestration mechanism provision or deprovision a configuration item of the hybrid cloud. The service-management system identifies the configuration item by examining the service request and then forwards the request to the cloud-orchestration mechanism. After confirming that the request has been satisfied, the service-management system retrieves from the orchestration mechanism provisioning information that describes attributes of the newly provisioned or deprovisioned configuration item and uses this information to update a configuration-management database, marking any provisioning information newly stored in the database as being authorized for use by other management systems of the hybrid cloud. The service-management system then enhances the stored data by means of an artificially intelligent analytics module and additional configuration-item data collected by a discovery agent.


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