US 11656915

Here's a concise summary of US patent 11656915:

US Patent: 11656915

• Title: Virtual systems management
• Assignee: The current assignee is WYE IP CAPITAL LLC, with TOUTVIRTUAL Inc. listed as the original assignee.
• Inventors: Vipul Pabari
• Filing Date: October 19, 2020 (for application US17/074,500, which this patent is a continuation of).
• Issue Date: May 23, 2023
• Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatic configuration management of a network are provided. The invention outlines a virtualization system that maintains an inventory of physical resources and virtual assets, with virtual assets being software instances of computer systems managed by a virtualization layer on physical resources. It can receive a request to provision a virtual asset, including specific parameters for that request, and also receive data on the available inventory. The system then automatically provisions a suitable virtual asset to a physical resource based on the request parameters, assigns it to the request, and grants user access to the provisioned virtual asset.

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• A PTAB case, IPR2026-00295, which is currently pending.
• A US case filed in the Texas Eastern District Court (case 2:25-cv-00943).
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