Obviousness

Based on the provided patent text for US patent 10810050 and the "Prior art" section from the Google Patents page, there are no specific prior art references identified by document number, publication, or specific system name that can be combined to render the claims obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103.

The "Prior art keywords" section on the Google Patents page lists general terms such as "virtual," "virtualization," "virtual asset," "control center," and "network," along with a "Prior art date" of 2005-08-15. These keywords describe the general technological field but do not point to specific prior art documents or systems for combination.

The "Description of the Related Art" section within the patent document itself discusses the challenges and limitations of conventional IT management and virtualization tools. It highlights the following problems with existing approaches:

• Element-driven management: Focus on individual elements, leading to a need for aggregated and correlated information and global visibility and control as systems grew.
• Bottom-up capacity planning: Typically carried out at the individual device level, often resulting in under-utilized IT resources due to worst-case scenario planning.
• Proprietary and limited virtualization tools: Many conventional virtualization software tools are labor-intensive, require manual configuration changes, are proprietary, and only work with specific vendors' virtual environments, CPUs, operating systems, or virtualization platforms. This necessitates multiple tools and skill sets.

The inventive concept of US patent 10810050 is described as providing methods and apparatus for managing one or more virtual environments "regardless of any underlying central processing unit (CPU) specification and regardless of any underlying operating system (OS) or virtualization environment." The patent emphasizes the ability to manage multiple virtual environments through a single user interface of a Control Center application, even with different underlying CPUs, operating systems, and virtualization environments.

Since the provided text and the Google Patents prior art section do not identify specific prior art documents, systems, or publications by name or identifier, it is not possible to identify combinations of specific prior art references that would render the claims of US patent 10810050 obvious, nor is it possible to explain the motivation for combining un-named references. The patent text effectively describes the landscape of existing problems that the invention aims to solve, rather than providing concrete, citable prior art for an obviousness analysis.