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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ravi Kumar Reddy Kottapalli, Bangalore, IN;
Shubham Verma, Bangalore, IN;
Suket Gakhar, Bangalore, IN;
Kannan Balasubramanian, Bangalore, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to dynamically discover and host services in fog servers are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a service manager to determine that a received service request from an Internet of things (IoT) device is not able to be performed locally at a first fog server; a first interface to transmit the service request to a fog resource manager; and a second interface to transmit instructions to the IoT device to transmit the service request to a second fog server, a response from the fog resource manager including service data related to the second fog server.