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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2009
Ashish Parikh, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rahul Arun Chabukswar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rohan S. Lam, Fall City, WA (US);
Jonas Aich Richmeier, Marysville, WA (US);
Ashish Parikh, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rahul Arun Chabukswar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rohan S. Lam, Fall City, WA (US);
Jonas Aich Richmeier, Marysville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide an ability to associate telemetry data received from different entities, such as guest and/or host machines residing on one or more particular physical computers (e.g., server computers) executing virtualization software. In some embodiments, telemetry data supplied by each entity includes information that identifies, and preserves the anonymity of, the entity (e.g., the computer(s) on which the guest and/or host machine(s) reside(s)). For example, if the entities comprise guest and/or host machines residing on a single computer, the information may comprise a one-way hash of the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the computer. If the entities are guest and/or host machines residing on a group of computers, the information may comprise a one-way hash of a portion of an FQDN for each computer which is common to all computers in the group. If the group of computers belong to a network domain having a globally unique identifier (GUID) (e.g., as employed by Microsoft Active Directory), the information may comprise a one-way hash of a portion of the GUID.