Cloud Automation Tool Patent Application Seeks to Simplify Infrastructure Management

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A patent application has been filed for a cloud automation tool that aims to simplify the management of cloud environments, particularly in the context of heterogeneous Infrastructure as Code (IaC) runtimes. The tool seeks to provide a unified platform for managing cloud infrastructure and applications across various cloud environments, including private, public, multi-, and hybrid clouds.

Key Takeaways:

  • The cloud automation tool is designed to support multiple IaC runtimes and their various versions, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and scalability in cloud environments.
  • The tool avoids the need for customer credentials to leave their environments, reducing the risk of cloud service compromising customer credentials and minimizing audit and security profiling/threat modeling risks.
  • The method of managing infrastructure in a cloud includes receiving a task from a cloud automation service, retrieving source code from a version control system, and executing the source code to manage the infrastructure according to the task.
  • The cloud automation service communicates with a data pipeline service, and the remote worker includes a data pipeline agent that executes as an agent of the data pipeline service.
  • The tool includes a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause a computing device to carry out the method of managing infrastructure in a cloud.

Statistics:

  • The patent application was filed on April 12, 2024.
  • The patent application was made available online on October 16, 2025.
  • There are 13 claims in the patent application, including 10 claims for the method of managing infrastructure in a cloud and 3 claims for the non-transitory computer-readable medium.
  • The patent application has 20 embodiments, with 7 of them specifically mentioning the use of a remote worker group and an application programming interface (API) token.

Sources:

  • Bobba, Praneeth; Devarakonda, Kalyan; Ganapathi, Prasanna. Remote Executions Of Heterogeneous Infrastructure As Code Runtimes In A Cloud Environment. U.S. Patent Application Number 20250321730, filed April 12, 2024 and posted October 16, 2025. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20250321730)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids