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Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2015
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Andrew T. Van Heuklon, Rochester, MN (US);

Jeffery J. Van Heuklon, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/917 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/76 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

Transferring workloads between computing devices in a distributed computing system, including: receiving, by a mobile computing device via a proximity-based communications protocol, a first computing device identity; receiving, by the mobile computing device, information describing one or more workloads executing on the first computing device; identifying, by the mobile computing device, a second computing device in the distributed computing system that is capable of executing at least a portion of the one or more workloads executing on the first computing device; and initiating, by the mobile computing device, a transfer of at least a portion of the one or more workloads executing on the first computing device to the second computing device.


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