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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas E. Chefalas, Somers, NY (US);

Chang-Shing Perng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Anca Sailer, Scarsdale, NY (US);

Ignacio Silva-Lepe, Putnam Valley, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0886 (2013.01); H04L 41/5019 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract

One aspect includes a method for constructing a specified virtual solution, comprising: obtaining a solution profile from a solution repository catalog, wherein the solution profile identifies one or more resources for the specified virtual solution; acquiring the one or more resources identified by the solution profile from one or more devices; and assembling the acquired one or more resources in accordance with the solution profile to construct the specified virtual solution. Another aspect includes a method for providing a Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) functionality in a cloud architecture, comprising: implementing a software defined infrastructure comprising distributed workload placement, location management, and data management; and implementing a RaaS layer comprising resource discovery and registration of capabilities.


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