US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 1 for "Bill-of-materials-driven virtual infrastructure deployment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,631, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bill-of-materials-driven virtual infrastructure deployment" was invented by Emily Hong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Russell Jew (San Francisco) and Rama Koteswari Sudireddi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of deploying virtual infrastructure on hardware infrastructure to support execution of software on the virtual infrastructure, includes the steps of: retrieving a hardware bill of materials (BOM) separately for each of a plurality of hardware devices of a group of hardware devices by using identifying information of each of the plurality o...