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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventors:
Scott Wayne Seago, Warwick, MA (US);
Angus Thomas, Horsham, GB;
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/32 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01);
Abstract
A server computer system receives a request to launch a deployment and determines a set of matches from a pool of cloud providers that meets minimum requirements for the deployment. The server computer identifies a selection criteria comprising priority ranking criteria and probability ranking criteria for the deployment. The server computer then determines one of the cloud providers for the deployment from the set of matches based on the priority ranking criteria and the probability ranking criteria.