Elastic cloud-driven task execution

• US 9,037,897 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gopinath, Ramesh, Kochut, Andrzej, Ramaswami, Kathiravan M., Sailer, Anca, Shaikh, Hidayatullah, Schulz, Charles O
• Primary Examiner(s): MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C
• Application Number:
  US13/399,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20130219211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,187 Days
• US Class Current: 714/4.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1482 by means of middleware or OS functionality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2028 eliminating a faulty processor or activating a spare
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/203 using migration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2035 without idle spare hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1034 Reaction to server failures by a load balancer

Abstract

A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for cloud-driven application execution. The method includes determining a plurality of attributes of a failed application, wherein the plurality of attributes comprises at least one policy context attribute and at least one context attribute, correlating each of the plurality of attributes to at least one alternative asset, wherein the at least one alternative asset is a part of an environment on which the failed application can be executed, using the plurality of attributes correlated to the at least one alternative asset to identify an alternative asset set of alternative assets, wherein the alternative asset set is capable of enabling an alternative environment on which to execute the failed application, and provisioning the alternative assets in the alternative asset set from at least one cloud network to create the alternative environment on which the failed application is executed.

Claims

1. A method for cloud-driven task execution, wherein the method comprises:

determining a plurality of attributes of a task that is (i) requested by a client device and (ii) precluded from execution on a given operating system of the client device based on a policy consideration of the given operating system, wherein the plurality of attributes comprises at least one policy context attribute and multiple context attributes comprising location of a user associated with the client device, the type of client device, a data type associated with the task, a location of data associated with the task, a given operation to be performed on data associated with the task, and one or more content attributes of data associated with the task;

correlating each of the plurality of attributes to at least one alternative asset in a cloud network, wherein the at least one alternative asset comprises at least one service that can execute tasks on the given operating system;

provisioning the at least one alternative asset from the cloud network to the client device to enable execution of the task on the given operating system of the client device;

wherein at least one of the steps is carried out by a computer device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving at least one task over at least one of one or more network interfaces; and

determining that one of the at least one task is precluded from execution on the given operating system of the client device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an alternative asset set comprises identifying an alternative asset set in a registry database.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said provisioning comprises streaming the task to the client device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said provisioning comprises launching a server or remote client to execute the task for a client.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said provisioning comprises selecting a shared server to execute the task.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said provisioning comprises launching an instance of the task which is already installed on the client device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a user interface to the task.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein providing a user interface comprises launching the task locally and displaying the user interface from a local instance of the task.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein providing a user interface comprises streaming the task from a specified stream server and installing the task locally or executing the task locally from the specified stream server.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein providing a user interface comprises launching a remote client and attaching to an appropriate remote client, server, or shared server to display the user interface.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein providing a user interface comprises launching a web browser to a uniform resource locator which provides the task as a web application.

13. An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage memory having computer readable instructions tangibly embodied thereon which, when implemented, cause a computer to carry out a plurality of method steps comprising:

determining a plurality of attributes of a task that is (i) requested by a client device and (ii) precluded from execution on a given operating system of the client device based on a policy consideration of the given operating system, wherein the plurality of attributes comprises at least one policy context attribute and multiple context attributes comprising location of a user associated with the client device, the type of client device, a data type associated with the task, a location of data associated with the task, a given operation to be performed on data associated with the task, and one or more content attributes of data associated with the task;

correlating each of the plurality of attributes to at least one alternative asset in a cloud network, wherein the at least one alternative asset comprises at least one service that can execute tasks on the given operating system;

provisioning the at least one alternative asset from the cloud network to the client device to enable execution of the task on the given operating system of the client device.

14. The article of manufacture of claim 13, wherein the computer readable instructions which, when implemented, further cause a computer to carry out a method step comprising:

receiving at least one task over at least one of one or more network interfaces; and

determining that one of the at least one task is precluded from execution on the given operating system of the client device.

15. The article of manufacture of claim 13, wherein identifying an alternative asset set comprises identifying an alternative asset set in a registry database.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 13, wherein the computer readable instructions which, when implemented, further cause a computer to carry out a method step comprising:

providing a user interface to the task.

17. A system for cloud-driven task execution, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and operative for;

determining a plurality of attributes of a task that is (i) requested by a client device and (ii) precluded from execution on a given operating system of the client device based on a policy consideration of the given operating system, wherein the plurality of attributes comprises at least one policy context attribute and multiple context attributes comprising location of a user associated with the client device, the type of client device, a data type associated with the task, a location of data associated with the task, a given operation to be performed on data associated with the task, and one or more content attributes of data associated with the task;

correlating each of the plurality of attributes to at least one alternative asset in a cloud network, wherein the at least one alternative asset is comprises at least one service that can execute tasks on the given operating system;

provisioning the at least one alternative asset from the cloud network to the client device to enable execution of the task on the given operating system of the client device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor coupled to the memory is further operative for:

receiving at least one task over at least one of one or more network interfaces; and

determining that one of the at least one task is precluded from execution on the given operating system of the client device.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor coupled to the memory operative for identifying an alternative asset set is further operative for identifying an alternative asset set in a registry database.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor coupled to the memory is further operative for:

providing a user interface to the task.