Determining hardware functionality in a cloud computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9003404-B2
Application number	US-201213427114-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2012
Priority date	Mar 22, 2012
Publication date	Apr 7, 2015
Grant date	Apr 7, 2015

Abstract

A device provides, to hardware associated with the device, a first request for hardware information, the first request being provided at a first time and via a virtual machine associated with the device. The device also receives, from the hardware and via the virtual machine, first hardware information based on the first request, and provides, to the hardware, a second request for hardware information, the second request being provided at a second time and via the virtual machine. The device further receives, from the hardware and via the virtual machine, second hardware information based on the second request, and calculates functionality of the hardware based on the first hardware information, the second hardware information, the first time, and the second time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
providing, by a first device associated with a cloud computing environment and to hardware associated with a second device associated with the cloud computing environment, a first request for first hardware information,
the second device being different from the first device, and
the first request being provided at a first time and via a secure connection enabled by a virtual machine included in the first device;

receiving, by th…

Assignees

• Slutz Donald C
• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Slutz Donald C

Classifications

• G06F2009/4557

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic