Monitoring cloud computing environments with data control policies

US10567356B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Parvez Anandam · Seattle, US
• Ramnath Prasad · Redmond, US
• Pradeep Ayyappan Nair · Redmond, US
• Lihua Yuan · Sammamish, US
• Percy Fitter · Bellevue, US
• Mark Hennessy · Cambridge, US
• Mohammad Qudeisat · Bellevue, US
• Rashid Michael Aga · North Bend, US
• Deepal Jayasinghe · Redmond, US
• George Chen · Cambridge, US
• David A. Maltz · Redmond, US
• Albert Greenberg · Redmond, US
• Thomas Keane · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2017
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L63/1408
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Monitoring of cloud computing environments subject to different data control policies is performed in a manner that ensures compliance with the data control policies. A monitoring service is located in a remote cloud computing environment separate from the cloud computing environments being monitored. The monitoring service does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environments, including access control data, such that the monitoring service cannot directly interact with network devices. The monitoring service issues requests for monitoring data to device access services in the cloud computing environments. In response to the requests, the device access services obtain access control data to access the network devices and obtain the requested data, which is returned to the monitoring service.