Cisco Technology, Inc.

John Christopher Cottrell

Vikram Kumaran

Plamen Nedeltchev

A first party, such as a residential subscriber to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), logically partitions its computing resources into an end user partition and a crowd sourced cloud partition. The first party installs a crowd sourced cloud application in each cloud partition. Together, a cloud provider computing system and each cloud application orchestrate cloud services over a communications network, such as the Internet. For each crowd sourced cloud application, orchestration involves registering cloud services with the cloud provider, provisioning each registered cloud service that is requested by the cloud provider, and operating each provisioned service. For the cloud provider, orchestration involves publishing each registered service as available to crowd sourced cloud users, receiving requests for cloud services from a crowd sourced cloud user, and requesting, from a crowd sourced cloud application, a registered service responsive to the request for cloud services.

Crowd sourced cloud computing

Methods and apparatus for managing interruptions in a multiple communication mode environment are provided herein. For example, a method may include receiving at least first instance of communication data associated with a first communication mode; obtaining first attribute data related to the first instance of communication data; classifying the first instance of communication data into first category based on the first attribute data using the interruption management device; and determining whether to interrupt a user by delivering the first instance of communication data based on the first category. The first category may be selected from a plurality of predetermined categories using a classification algorithm.

Method and apparatus for managing interruptions from different modes of communication

Methods and apparatus for managing interruptions in a multiple communication mode environment are provided herein. For example, a method may include receiving at least first and second instances of communication data associated with first and second communication modes; obtaining first and attribute data related to the first and second instances of communication data; classifying the first and second instances of communication data into first and second categories based on the first and second attribute data using the interruption management device; and determining whether to interrupt a user by delivering the first instance of communication data or the second instance of communication data based on the first and second categories, respectively. The first category and the second category may be selected from a plurality of predetermined categories using a classification algorithm. The first communication mode may be different than the second communication mode.

According to one embodiment, a system comprises at least one processor. The system detects on a computing device an invocation event facilitating execution of one or more applications. The applications include at least one remote application. A search path is examined to determine locations for the one or more applications, and includes at least one indicator indicating a remote location for execution of a corresponding remote application. Each indicator associated with the at least one remote application is resolved to determine a remote location for execution of the corresponding remote application. The applications are executed at the determined locations with each remote application being executed on a corresponding remote computing device at the corresponding remote location. Embodiments may further include a method and computer-readable media encoded with software for executing applications distributed across a plurality of computing devices in substantially the same manner described above.

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