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Cloud service brokerage service store

  • US 9,824,390 B2
  • Filed: 09/28/2015
  • Issued: 11/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cloud service brokerage system, comprising:

  • at least one data processing device; and

    a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the at least one data processing device, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions executed by the at least one data processing device, the instructions causing the at least one data processing device to implement;

    a plurality of cloud service information providing application programming interfaces (APIs) each providing a connection to a respective one of a plurality of cloud service providers for enabling information defining cloud services thereof to be acquired;

    an electronic cloud service catalog containing said cloud service defining information for each one of the cloud services, wherein said cloud service defining information for each one of the cloud services is received from a respective one of the cloud service providers; and

    a plurality of cloud service stores each including cloud service publications defined exclusively by a respective one of the cloud service brokers, wherein each one of the cloud service stores includes a respective one of a plurality of broker information providing APIs, wherein each one of the broker information providing APIs enables a respective one of a plurality of cloud service brokers to access and manipulate information defining a publication specification thereof, wherein the publication specification of a respective one of the cloud service brokers includes abstraction-defining information utilized exclusively for creating cloud service publications of a cloud service store-thereof by abstracting the cloud service defining information of the electronic cloud service catalog in accordance with the abstraction-defining information of the publication specification thereof, wherein said abstracted cloud service defining information of a particular one of the cloud service publications in the cloud service store of the respective one of the cloud service brokers is correspondingly updated in response to the abstraction-defining information of the publication specifications of the respective one of the cloud service brokers being altered thereby causing configuration of the publication specifications to define a manner in which cloud services contained in the electronic cloud service catalog that are available for procurement via the respective one of the cloud service stores are published as cloud service publications therein, wherein each one of the cloud service stores includes a user interface structure enabling generation of cloud service orders therefrom that include one or more cloud services each characterized by a respective one of the cloud service publications thereof, and wherein each one of the service store conveys cloud service order procurement information for each one of the cloud service orders thereof to respective ones of the cloud service providers through at least one of the cloud service information providing APIs.

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