TOOL FOR MANAGING COMPUTER RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURES AND NETWORKS
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Abstract
A tool for aiding utilization of communicating equipment includes a resources manager associated with a data structure where an equipment identifier is connected with dated values of utilizable global functional capability of the resource, and dated values of temporarily allocated functional capability. A scheduling tool evaluates an acceptance condition by comparing dates which pertain to a dated functional capability and to the dated series of functional capability maintained in connection with one or more resource identifiers. A resources allocator receives an identified request for temporary reservation of functional capabilities, including a dated suite of functional data, it responds thereto by calling a resources selector for each functional data item of the request, the scheduling tool for some at least of the identifiers of the subset returned by the resources selector; and by returning a set of resource identifiers as response to the reservation request.
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20 Claims
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11. A tool for aiding utilization of a network of communicating equipment items, each having at least one of a transmission, storage and digital data processing capability, the tool comprising:
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a resources manager associated with a storage of resource status data arranged in a data structure, an identifier in the data structure being related with dated values of quantitative magnitudes, the resources manager being arranged to register at least some of the network equipment as resource in the status data storage, with; as identifier an equipment identifier, as dated values of quantitative magnitudes, a first sequence of dated values of transmission, storage and/or processing capacity defining a global usable capacity of the resource, and one or more sequences of dated values of at least one of a transmission, storage and processing capacity defining temporarily allocated resource capacities; a resources selector comprising; a first selection tool adapted to return a subset of resource identifiers selected from the data storage as per functional identification data, a planning tool adapted to evaluate an acceptance condition on the basis of expressions of comparison of dates which relate to a dated functional capacity and to the dated sequences of the at least one transmission, storage and processing capacity held in relation to one or more resource identifiers; a resources allocator arranged to receive an identified request for temporary reservation of functional capacities comprising a dated set of functional data, and to respond thereto by; calling the resources selector for each functional data item of the request, calling the planning tool for at least some of the identifiers of the subset returned by the resources selector, and by; returning a set of resource identifiers as response to the reservation request. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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