Model-based policy application

US7689676B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Anders Vinberg · Kirkland, US
• Bruce W. Copeland · Redmond, US
• Robert M. Fries · Redmond, US
• Kevin Grealish · Seattle, US
• Jonathan C. Hardwick · Kirkland, US
• Michael Healy · Redmond, US
• Galen C. Hunt · Bellevue, US
• Aamer Hydrie · Seattle, US
• David C. James · Bothell, US
• Anand Lakshminarayanan · Redmond, US
• Edwin R. Lassettre · Los Gatos, US
• Raymond W. McCollum · Monroe, US
• Rob Mensching · Redmond, US
• Mazhar Mohammed · Sammamish, US
• Rajagopalan Badri Narayanan · Redmond, US
• Geoffrey Outhred · Seattle, US
• Zhengkai Kenneth Pan · Redmond, US
• Efstathios Papaefstathiou · Redmond, US
• John M. Parchem · Seattle, US
• Vij Rajarajan · Redmond, US
• Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi · Sammamish, US
• Bassam Tabbara · Seattle, US
• Rene Antonio Vega · Kirkland, US
• Vitaly Voloshin · Issaquah, US
• Robert V. Welland · Seattle, US
• John H. Wilson · Woodinville, US
• Eric J. Winner · Woodinville, US
• Jeffrey A. Woolsey · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 12, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2010
• Expiry date: Feb 22, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2221/2101
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In accordance with certain aspects of the model-based policy application, each of a plurality of policies is associated with appropriate parts of a model of a heterogeneous system. A deployment agent is invoked to apply each of the plurality of policies to components associated with the parts of the model. An identification of a change to one of the plurality of policies is received, and the deployment agent is also invoked to apply the changed policy to selected ones of the components associated with the parts of the model.