公开(公告)号：US20240241971A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18127682

申请日：2023-03-29

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： SREETAM PARIDA ,  PRAVEEN TIRUMANYAM ,  NARASIMHA GOPAL GORTHI ,  NARASIMHA MURTHI ,  AVINASH VENKATESH BHAT

IPC: G06F21/60

CPC classification number: G06F21/604 ,  G06F2221/2113 ,  G06F2221/2141

Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to techniques for determining items of inventory of a data center to which a user has access. Embodiments include receiving permission information indicating specific user permissions assigned to particular items of a plurality of items in an inventory of data center resources, wherein items of the plurality of items are organized in a hierarchical manner across nodes of a hierarchical tree. Embodiments include assigning categories to the plurality of items based on the permission information, wherein each of the particular items is assigned a unique category based on the specific user permissions and each of the plurality of items that is not in the particular items and that has a parent node in the hierarchical tree is assigned a category corresponding to the parent node. Embodiments include storing category information in a data store based on the assigning of the categories.

公开(公告)号：US20240220587A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18113093

申请日：2023-02-23

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： SREETAM PARIDA ,  PRAVEEN TIRUMANYAM ,  NARASIMHA GOPAL GORTHI ,  NARASIMHA MURTHI ,  AVINASH VENKATESH BHAT

IPC: G06F21/31

CPC classification number: G06F21/31

Abstract: Scalar values are assigned to hierarchically-arranged items of inventory of one or more data centers, which may be physical or software-defined, based on the positions of the inventory items in the hierarchy. The scalar values are assigned to the items such that they have increasing values when the items are traversed during a depth-first search of the hierarchy. With this assignment, items of inventory to which a user has access permissions, or any other type of permissions, can be specified as one or more ranges of the scalar values, and such items can be determined from the specified one or more ranges.

公开(公告)号：US20240005023A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-04

申请号：US17901903

申请日：2022-09-02

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： KALYAN DEVARAKONDA ,  NARASIMHA GOPAL GORTHI ,  JOHN E. BREZAK ,  LOKESH SHRIVASTAVA ,  NARASIMHA MURTHI

IPC: G06F16/23 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06F16/22

CPC classification number: G06F16/2358 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06F16/2246

Abstract: Items of inventory of a data center are organized in a hierarchical manner across nodes of at least one hierarchical tree. A method of generating items of inventory of the data center to which a user has access includes generating a plurality of first user access paths based on permissions given to the user at one or more nodes of a first hierarchical tree, and performing a database look-up on an inventory database using the first user access paths to determine the inventory items of the data center to which the user has access. The inventory database stores for each inventory item of the data center identifying information that uniquely identifies the inventory item and node information indicating the node of the first hierarchical tree where the inventory item is arranged.