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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:
Apr. 12, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gang Tang, Nanjing, CN;

Yue Wang, Beijing, CN;

Liang Rong, Suzhou, CN;

Wen Tao Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5022 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for offloading a workload between computing environments. According to the method, a workload of a target function of a service provisioned in a first computing environment is determined. A processing capacity of the service available for the target function in the first computing environment is determined. In accordance with a determination that the workload exceeds the processing capacity, at least one incoming request for the target function is caused to be routed to a target instance of the target function, the target instance of the target function being provisioned in a second computing environment different from the first computing environment.


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