METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COST DETERMINATION OF SERVICE CATALOG BY DYNAMIC AGGREGATION OF SERVICE OFFERING SUBSCRIPTIONS

• US 20150066701A1
• Filed: 08/27/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Connectloud, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Connectloud, Inc.
• Inventors: Madani, Habib, Siddiqui, Sameer, Azizullah, Faisal, Ashraf, Adnan
• Application Number:
  US14/470,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066701A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.61
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation

Abstract

Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

aggregation of service offering subscriptions; and

intelligent cost determination of consumed service offerings.

2. An apparatus, comprising:

a policy based algorithm for determining costs in a service catalog; and

A software platform containing a service catalog with the ability to evaluate service offering subscriptions.