Output transform brokerage service

• US 20080170260A1
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Infoprint Solutions Company LLC (Ricoh Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Infoprint Solutions Company LLC (Ricoh Company Limited)
• Inventors: Haller, Michael, Czyszczewski, Joseph S., Smith, James T.
• Application Number:
  US12/006,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20080170260A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5055 considering software capabilities, i.e. software resources associated or available to the machine

Abstract

A method for providing computer services is provided. The method includes receiving deployments of common standards transform services from each of one or more transform service providers, registering each deployment as a transform service provider, receiving a request for a transform service from a customer, matching the requested grid service with a deployment, linking the customer with a provider of the matched registered deployment and the provider performing a transform on data provided by the customer.

Claims

1. A method for providing computer services, comprising:

receiving deployments of common standards transform services from each of one or more transform service providers;

registering each deployment as a transform service provider;

receiving a request for a transform service from a customer;

matching the requested grid service with a deployment;

linking the customer with a provider of the matched registered deployment; and

the provider performing a transform on data provided by the customer.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the customer receiving the transformed data from the provider.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein performing the transform on data provided by the customer comprises a resource context acquiring the data and resources to perform the transform.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein performing the transform further comprises transforming each unit of data from a first format to a second format.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the customer is a provider requesting additional transform capacity.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein deployments of common standards transform services are provided as grid-based services.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein deployments of common standards transform services are provided as web-based services.

8. A network, comprising:

one or more service providers to transform data from a first format to a second format;

one or more customers to request the transform of data; and

a transform services broker, having a registry of each of the one or more transform service providers, to receive a request from a customer and to link the customer with a provider.

9. The network of claim 8 wherein the broker comprises a resource context to acquire the data and resources to perform the transform of data.

10. The network of claim 8 wherein the one or more service providers are provided as grid-based services.

11. The network of claim 8 wherein the one or more service providers are provided as web-based services.

12. A computer program product of a computer readable medium usable with a programmable computer, the computer program product having computer-readable code embodied therein for providing computer services, the computer-readable code comprising instructions for:

receiving deployments of common standards transform services from each of one or more transform service providers;

registering each deployment as a transform service provider;

receiving a request for a transform service from a customer;

matching the requested grid service with a deployment;

linking the customer with a provider of the matched registered deployment; and

the provider performing a transform on data provided by the customer.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprising instructions for the customer receiving the transformed data from the provider.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein performing the transform on data provided by the customer comprises a resource context acquiring the data and resources to perform the transform.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein performing the transform further comprises transforming each unit of data from a first format to a second format.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein the customer is a provider requesting additional transform capacity.

18. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein deployments of common standards transform services are provided as grid-based services.

19. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein deployments of common standards transform services are provided as web-based services.

20. The broker server of claim 19 further comprising a resource context to acquire the data and resources to perform the transform of data.

19-1. A broker server, comprising:

an input to receive customer requests to transform data from a first format to a second format;

a registry of transform service providers implemented to perform a transform; and

an output to forward a transform request to one or more of the transform service providers.