Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Shi Xin

Mathias Salle

Wei-Wei Zhou

Ping-Hua Hong

A method of network resource management comprising, with a processor, creating a model of an application, defining a number of substitution points within the model, expressing the substitution points as abstract models with a set of sub-types, and codifying a number of policies that express which sourcing option to use for each substitution point.

Network resource management

In a methodof linking model instances to packages, a service instantiation request is received. The service instantiation request is associatedwith service model instance. Linked instances are generatedbetween the service model instance and available packages. The linked instances are evaluated. Based on the evaluating, a most efficient linked instance of the linked instances is selectedto include in a bound package model of the service instantiation request.

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Shanghai, China

Shi Xin