RESOURCE ALLOCATION

• US 20170187644A1
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Published: 06/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Eckstein, Denise Marie
• Granted Patent: US 10,536,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• 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

Abstract

An example system includes one or more users, each user having an allocation of each of one or more resources; and one or more resource brokers, each of the one or more users being associated with one of the one or more resource brokers. A first resource broker of the one or more resource brokers, upon detecting an insufficient allocation of a resource to an associated user, obtains additional allocation of the resource from another user of the one or more users through a second resource broker associated with the another user.

Claims

1. A system, comprising;

one or more users, each user having an allocation of each of one or more resources; and

one or more resource brokers, each of the one or more users being associated with one of the one or more resource brokers,

wherein a first resource broker of the one or more resource brokers, upon detecting an insufficient allocation of a resource to an associated user, obtains additional allocation of the resource from another user of the one or more users through a second resource broker associated with the another user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each resource broker of the one or more resource broker is associated with a single user of the one or more users.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the detecting an insufficient allocation of the resource to the associated user is based on one or more policies associated with the user or the resource.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the detecting an insufficient allocation of the resource to the associated user is based on a notification from the associated user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein obtaining additional resources includes an exchange of resources between users.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the exchange of users is governed by one or more policies.

7. A method, comprising:

detecting an insufficient allocation of a resource to a first user;

identifying a second user with an excess allocation of the resource;

obtaining additional allocation of the resource for the first user from the second user through a resource broker associated with the second user.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the detecting an insufficient allocation of the resource to the first user is based on one or more policies associated with the first user or the resource.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the detecting an insufficient allocation of the resource to the first user is based on a notification from the first user.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein obtaining additional resources includes an exchange of resources between the first user and the second user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the exchange of resources is governed by one or more policies.

12. A computer program product, embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising:

computer code to detect an insufficient allocation of a resource to a first user;

computer code to identify a second user with an excess allocation of the resource;

computer code to obtain additional allocation of the resource for the first user from the second user through a resource broker associated with the second user.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer code to detect an insufficient allocation of the resource to the first user is based on one or more policies associated with the first user or the resource.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer code to detect an insufficient allocation of the resource to the first user is based on a notification from the first user

15. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer code to obtain additional resources includes an exchange of resources between the first user and the second user.