PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865235
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["717", "126000"]

Abstract:
Described technologies facilitate cloud validation using validation as a service (VaaS). A cloud validation service provider acquires and securely stores certification tests developed by cloud component providers, integrated solution providers, and others. Each test's executable portion tests hardware or software of a candidate cloud. The candidate may be on the premises of an enterprise, or instead be a hosted cloud on the premises of a hoster off the premises of the entity that pays for the hosting. Monitored testing is done using an infrastructure in the candidate cloud or in a public cloud. Results are uploaded to the VaaS provider, which provides an analysis of test results for use in determining whether to validate the candidate cloud. Test execution agents may be VaaS-cloud-resident or candidate-cloud-resident, and may use a mutex to prevent simultaneous execution of tests. Testing may be accomplished even when the candidate cloud has no internet-exposed communication endpoint.

Claim (Index 1):
A method supporting validation of a candidate cloud, the method suitable to be performed by or on behalf of a validation service provider, comprising:\n one or more validation servers outside the candidate cloud acquiring from at least one source other than the validation service provider, and storing in a secured location, at least one digital certification test, each digital certification test having an executable portion which is capable, upon execution, of testing hardware that resides in the candidate cloud or testing software that resides in the candidate cloud or testing both; supplying a certification test execution infrastructure which is capable of executing one or more certification test executable portions; monitoring at least one execution of at least one certification test executable portion; receiving at least one certification test result which was generated by execution of one or more certification test executable portions, wherein receiving at least one certification test result comprises receiving one or more results which individually or collectively specify a respective value or status for at least four of the following tested items: throughput measured in input/output operations per second, throughput measured in megabytes per second, transactional throughput, streaming throughput, uptime, virtual machine redistribution impact, load rebalancing impact, patching impact, upgrade installation impact, hardware replacement impact, corrupt storage mitigation impact, power fluctuation impact, power loss impact, server hardware failure impact, concurrent virtual machine deployment impact, backup impact, backup restoration impact, node reboot impact, network interface failure impact, storage capacity threshold alert, virtual machine live migration, storage migration, compute node failure, storage node failure, non-shared disk failure, shared disk failure, network cable failure, network switch failure or error, router failure or error, firewall failure or error, host bus adapter failure; and providing one or more certification test results for use in making a determination whether to validate the candidate cloud.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465393', '14927315', '14695186', '13456519', '15672068']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3651183726041574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4979255724480093
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3783990925885426
- Mean Citation Score: 177.89011200000004
- Max Citation Score: 195.51796
- Similarity Product: 136.92851840207578

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

Dataset: test