Support system for cellular based resource sharing service

• US 10,142,491 B1
• Filed: 07/05/2017
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chandrashekar, Shiva P., Rao, Ashoka S., Venkateswaran, Sreekrishnan
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US15/641,619
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/38215 Use of certificates or encrypted proofs of transaction rights
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/00 Business processing using cryptography
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1403 Architecture for metering, charging or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/58 based on statistics of usage or network monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/60 based on actual use of network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8083 involving reduced rates or discounts, e.g. time-of-day reductions or volume discounts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0184 involving reduced rates or discounts, e.g. time-of-day reductions, volume discounts, cell discounts, group billing, frequent calling destination(s) or user history list
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0188 Network monitoring; statistics on usage on called/calling number
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A system, method and program product for implementing a cellular resource sharing support system. A system is disclosed that includes: a behavior analysis system that collects usage data from a set of mobile devices in a cellular network; a subscription manager that computationally generates offers to mobile device owners to avail excess compute resources of the mobile devices to a resource sharing services system; a device manager that tracks the real-time availability and usage of participating mobile devices that are associated with mobile device owners that have accepted offers to avail excess compute resources; and an account manager that calculates a compensation for participating mobile devices.

Claims

1. A cellular resource sharing support system, comprising:

a behavior analysis system that collects usage data from a set of mobile devices in a cellular network;

a subscription manager that computationally generates offers to mobile device owners to avail excess compute resources of the mobile devices to a resource sharing services system;

a device manager that tracks the real-time availability and usage of participating mobile devices that are associated with the mobile device owners that have accepted the offers to avail the excess compute resources; and

an account manager that calculates and provides a compensation to the mobile device owners that have accepted the offers to avail the excess compute resources of the participating mobile devices to the resource sharing services system,

wherein each offer generated for a mobile device owner is based on collected usage data of an associated mobile device, and

wherein the offer requires the mobile device owner to avail a predetermine percentage of the excess compute resources of the associated mobile device for a predetermined amount of time provided that an average utilization of the associated mobile device falls below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined period of time.

2. The cellular resource sharing support system of claim 1, further comprising a services manager that provisions a catalogue of virtual machine units for consumption by resource consumers and manages associates service level agreements.

3. The cellular resource sharing support system of claim 1, wherein the offer requires the mobile device owner to avail excess compute resources of the associated mobile device provided a threshold amount of the excess compute resources is not exceeded.

4. The cellular resource sharing support system of claim 1, wherein the device manager identifies and schedules groups of participating mobile devices, wherein each group is capable of provisioning a virtual machine unit with a predetermined amount of redundancy.

5. The cellular resource sharing support system of claim 1, wherein the compensation is selected from a group consisting of:

a billing credit, a token, or a service.

6. A computer program product stored on a computer readable storage medium, which when executed by a computing system, provides a cellular resource sharing support system, the program product comprising:

program code that collects usage data from a set of mobile devices in a cellular network;

program code that computationally generates offers to mobile device owners to avail excess compute resources of the mobile devices to a resource sharing services system;

program code that tracks the real-time availability and usage of participating mobile devices that are associated with the mobile device owners that have accepted the offers to avail the excess compute resources; and

program code that calculates and provides a compensation to the mobile device owners that have accepted the offers to avail the excess compute resources of the participating mobile devices to the resource sharing services system,

wherein each offer generated for a mobile device owner is based on collected usage data of an associated mobile device, and

wherein the offer requires the mobile device owner to avail a predetermine percentage of the excess compute resources of the associated mobile device for a predetermined amount of time provided that an average utilization of the associated mobile device falls below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined period of time.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising program code that provisions a catalogue of virtual machine units for consumption by resource consumers and manages associates service level agreements.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the offer requires the mobile device owner to avail excess compute resources of the associated mobile device provided a threshold amount of the excess compute resources is not exceeded.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising program code that identifies and schedules groups of participating mobile devices, wherein each group is capable of provisioning a virtual machine unit with a predetermined amount of redundancy.

10. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the compensation is selected from a group consisting of:

a billing credit, a token, or a service.

11. A computerized method that provides a cellular resource sharing support system, the method comprising:

collecting usage data from a set of mobile devices in a cellular network;

computationally generating offers to mobile device owners to avail excess compute resources of the mobile devices to a resource sharing services system;

tracking the real-time availability and usage of participating mobile devices that are associated with the mobile device owners that have accepted the offers to avail the excess compute resources; and

calculating and providing a compensation to the mobile device owners that have accepted the offers to avail the excess compute resources of the participating mobile devices to the resource sharing services system,

wherein each offer generated for a mobile device owner is based on collected usage data of an associated mobile device, and

wherein the offer requires the mobile device owner to avail a predetermine percentage of the excess compute resources of the associated mobile device for a predetermined amount of time provided that an average utilization of the associated mobile device falls below a predetermined threshold for a predetermined period of time.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising provisioning a catalogue of virtual machine units for consumption by resource consumers and managing associates service level agreements.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the offer requires the mobile device owner to avail excess compute resources of the associated mobile device provided a threshold amount of the excess compute resources is not exceeded.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising identifying and scheduling groups of participating mobile devices, wherein each group is capable of provisioning a virtual machine unit with a predetermined amount of redundancy.