SHARING OF PORTABLE INITIALIZED OBJECTS BETWEEN COMPUTING PLATFORMS

• US 20150134774A1
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Lyle, Ruthie D., Masselle, Eric L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,959,106 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A sub-process is performed on a first computing platform to create a portable initialized object. The portable initialized object is communicated to a second computing platform. The second computing platform uses the portable initialized object to replace performing the sub-process.

Claims

1. A method for bypassing a sub-process on a first computing platform, the method comprising:

receiving, from a second computing platform, a portable initialized object, the portable initialized object generated by execution of the sub-process on the second computing platform; and

using the portable initialized object to replace performing the sub-process.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computing platform is selected from the group consisting of a first virtual machine, a first logical partition, and a first hardware based non-virtual machine, and wherein the second computing platform is selected from the group consisting of a second virtual machine, a second logical partition, and a second hardware based non-virtual machine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computing platform is a virtual machine.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the portable initialized object is received through a peer-to-peer network.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first computing platform and the second computing platform communicate directly through the peer-to-peer network.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the peer-to-peer network is selected from the group consisting of Bluetooth, Near Field Communication, peer-to-peer 802.11 wifi, and wifi direct.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sub-process is selected from the group consisting of an initialization sub-process and an update sub-process.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating the portable initialized object to a third computing platform.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the first computing platform is authorized to receive the portable initialized object.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining that the first computing platform is authorized to receive the portable initialized object comprises:

determining that the first computing platform is at an acceptable location.

11. A method for sharing a portable initialized object by a first computing platform, the method comprising:

executing a sub-process to generate the portable initialized object; and

communicating the portable initialized object to a second computing platform, the portable initialized object configured to replace performance of the sub-process in the second computing platform.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first computing platform is selected from the group consisting of a first virtual machine, a first logical partition, and a first hardware based non-virtual machine, and wherein the second computing platform is selected from the group consisting of a second virtual machine, a second logical partition, and a second hardware based non-virtual machine.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second computing platform is a virtual machine.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the portable initialized object is communicated through a peer-to-peer network.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first computing platform and the second computing platform communicate directly through the peer-to-peer network.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the peer-to-peer network is selected from the group consisting of Bluetooth, Near Field Communication, peer-to-peer 802.11 wifi, and wifi direct.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the sub-process is selected from the group consisting of an initialization sub-process and an update sub process.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

associating a time out value with the portable initialized object; and

discarding the object in response to detecting the time out value has been reached.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining that the second computing platform is authorized to receive the portable initialized object.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the determining that the second computing platform is authorized to receive the portable initialized object comprises:

determining that the second computing platform is at an acceptable location.