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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jason L. Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Jeffrey L. Coveyduc, San Jose, CA (US);
Shaun T. Murakami, San Jose, CA (US);
John Reif, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Animesh Singh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for resolving and/or implementing policies based on layers of a network stack (e.g., cloud computing stack). Specifically, for a given policy that is being resolved, the system first evaluates the applicability of the policy to each layer in the network stack. For a given policy, the system then evaluates the relative effectiveness of applying the policy to achieve the overall goal of the policy. Based on the best fit evaluation of the relative comparison, the system then decides how and where the policy is enacted (e.g., determines a protocol for implementing the policy).