DISTRIBUTED ON-DEMAND RFID APPLICATION PLATFORM

• US 20150200868A1
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Swildens, Eric Sven-Johan, Day, Richard David, Garg, Vikas, Liu, Zaide
• Application Number:
  US14/547,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20150200868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/745 Reaction in network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1017 based on a round robin mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1029 using data related to the state of servers by a load balancer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing

Abstract

A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is selected for hosting the program. The system monitors the status and performance of each distributed computing server. The system provisions additional servers when traffic levels exceed a predetermined level for a customer'"'"'s application program and, as traffic demand decreases to a predetermined level, servers can be un-provisioned and returned back to a server pool for later provisioning. The system tries to fill up one server at a time with customer application programs before dispatching new requests to another server. The customer is charged a fee based on the usage of the distributed computing servers.

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28. A system, comprising:

a distributed on-demand computing platform comprising a plurality of points of presence interconnected by a plurality of computer networks, each point of presence having one or more servers;

the distributed on-demand computing platform operative to automatically provision a given server to run an RFID application, in response to demand for the RFID application;

the RFID application receiving and processing information from an RFID tag at the given server;

wherein the RFID application comprises any of a tracking, identification, and security application that operates on the information from the RFID tag.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the given server is shared by RFID applications associated with a plurality of different customers of a service provider that provides the distributed on-demand computing platform.

30. The system of claim 28, wherein the given server is shared by multiple applications that were automatically provisioned in response to demand.

31. The system of claim 28, wherein the RFID application comprises a security application selected from the group consisting of:

(i) homeland security application, (ii) employee identification application, and (iii) access application, where access is for any of vehicles, buildings, gate communities, corporate campuses, and airports.

32. The system of claim 28, wherein the selection of the given server for automatic provisioning of the RFID application is based on one or more criteria selected from the set of criteria that is:

load, availability, and geographic demand.

33. The system of claim 28, wherein the RFID application comprises RFID supply-chain middleware.

34. The system of claim 28, wherein multiple servers are provisioned with the RFID application and the system load-balances requests across the multiple servers provisioned with the RFID application.

35. A system, comprising:

a distributed on-demand computing platform comprising a plurality of points of presence interconnected by a plurality of computer networks, each point of presence having one or more servers;

means for automatically provisioning a given server to run an RFID application, in response to demand for the RFID application;

the RFID application receiving and processing information from an RFID tag at the given server;

wherein the RFID application comprises any of a tracking, identification, and security application that operates on the information from the RFID tag.

36. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising:

computer program instructions that, when executed by processors on a plurality of servers in a distributed on-demand computing platform that includes a plurality of points of presence interconnected by a plurality of computer networks, each point of presence having one or more servers, cause the distributed on-demand computing platform to automatically provision a given server to run an RFID application, in response to demand for the RFID application;

the RFID application receiving and processing information from an RFID tag at the given server;

wherein the RFID application comprises any of a tracking, identification, and security application that operates on the information from the RFID tag.