PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918818
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["709", "220000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for automated standalone bootstrapping of hardware inventory that includes a provisioning workflow of discovering, validating, and configuring hardware inventory. In an exemplary embodiment, an in-rack computing device, such as a chassis manager or selected blade, initializes an intra-rack communication network with a hardware inventory of the rack. The in-rack computing device initiates intra-rack communication with the hardware inventory in the rack, using the intra-rack communication network, to discover at least a set of computing units in a hardware inventory. Intra-rack communications that include traffic received from the set of computing units. The in-rack computing device validates operational configurations of the hardware inventory based on comparing expected operational configuration parameters with actual operational configuration parameters, at least a portion of the operational configuration parameters retrieved from the information carried within the traffic received from the set of computing units.

Claim (Index 16):
A computer system for performing a method for standalone bootstrapping rack hardware inventory, the computer system comprising:\n a rack; at least one network device residing within the rack, wherein the at least one network device is selected from:\n (a) a top-of-rack (TOR) switch for sending data packets over a network-based connection; and \n (b) a serial-access device for invoking generation of the data packets upon receiving instructions over a serial-based connection; \n a set of blades inserted within the rack, wherein the set of blades include the one or more computing units that are configured to individually generate data packets upon respectively receiving power; a power distribution unit (PDU) for selectively supplying power to the set of blades; at least one provisioning service device, the provisioning service device selected from one of: a built-in chassis manager that is communicatively coupled to the TOR switch via the network-based connection; a selected blade from the set of blades that is communicatively coupled to the TOR switch via the network-based connection; and a user device that is communicatively coupled to the TOR switch via the network-based connection to the serial-access device via the serial-based connection, and wherein the built-in chassis manager, selected blade, and the user device are configured to perform provisioning comprising: (a) discovering the network devices and the set of blades; and (b) validating a location of the set of blades by comparing information carried within the data packets against a template file that describes a topology of the rack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08861
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14496869', '13360876', '13715273', '13531136', '13647116']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2838595586806687
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5882287651232305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3142964793249249
- Mean Citation Score: 320.034742
- Max Citation Score: 502.9399
- Similarity Product: 477.6411826032758

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test