Crowd sourced cloud computing

• US 9,952,908 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2015
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nedeltchev, Plamen, Cottrell, John Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Jimmy H
• Application Number:
  US14/851,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20160080477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 956 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A first party, such as a residential subscriber to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), logically partitions its computing resources into an end user partition and a crowd sourced cloud partition. The first party installs a crowd sourced cloud application in each cloud partition. Together, a cloud provider computing system and each cloud application orchestrate cloud services over a communications network, such as the Internet. For each crowd sourced cloud application, orchestration involves registering cloud services with the cloud provider, provisioning each registered cloud service that is requested by the cloud provider, and operating each provisioned service. For the cloud provider, orchestration involves publishing each registered service as available to crowd sourced cloud users, receiving requests for cloud services from a crowd sourced cloud user, and requesting, from a crowd sourced cloud application, a registered service responsive to the request for cloud services.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

logically partitioning, in each of a plurality of first party computing resources, each first party computing resource into a first party end user partition and a first party crowd-sourced cloud partition;

installing a crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource; and

orchestrating, by a cloud provider computing system and the crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource, cloud services over a communications network, wherein orchestrating comprises;

by the crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource, via the communications network;

registering at least one cloud service of the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of the first party computing resource with the cloud provider;

receiving, from the cloud provider computing system, one or more requests for registered crowd-sourced cloud services;

provisioning each registered crowd-sourced cloud service requested by the cloud provider computing system in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of the first party computing resource; and

operating each provisioned service; and

by the cloud provider computing system,

publishing each registered cloud service as available to crowd-sourced cloud user computing systems;

receiving one or more requests for cloud services from a crowd-sourced cloud user computing system; and

requesting, from a crowd-sourced cloud application of a particular first party computing resource, a registered crowd-sourced cloud service responsive to the request for cloud services from the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet application provider computing system, the cloud provider computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) computing system, and each of the first party computing resources are ISP residential subscriber computing resources.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet application provider computing system, and wherein the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing resources.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are ISP residential subscriber computing resources; and

the communications network is the Internet provided by the ISP.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system is an ISP residential subscriber computing resource of a separate subscriber to the ISP, and each of the first party computing resources are separate residential subscribers of the ISP; and

the communications network is the Internet provided by the ISP.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing systems other then the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system; and

the communications network is characterized by a spatial scope less than or equal to a local area network.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the communications network comprises a Wi-Fi local area wireless computing network.

8. Logic encoded on one or more non-transitory computer storage media for execution and when executed operable to:

partition, in each of a plurality of first party computing resources, each first party computing resource into a first party end user partition and a first party crowd-sourced cloud partition;

install a crowd sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource; and

orchestrate, by a cloud provider computing system and the crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource, cloud services over a communications network, wherein orchestrating comprises;

by the crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource, via the communications network;

registering at least one cloud service of the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of the first party computing resource with the cloud provider,

receiving, from the cloud provider computing system, one or more requests for registered crowd-sourced cloud services;

provisioning each registered crowd-sourced cloud service requested by the cloud provider computing system in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of the first party computing resource, and

operating each provisioned service; and

by the cloud provider computing system,

publishing each registered cloud service as available to crowd-sourced cloud user computing systems,

receiving one or more requests for cloud services from a crowd-sourced cloud user computing system, and

requesting, from a crowd-sourced cloud application of a particular first party computing resource, a registered crowd-sourced cloud service responsive to the request for cloud services from the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system.

9. The logic of claim 8, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet application provider computing system, the cloud provider computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) computing system, and each of the first party computing resources are ISP residential subscriber computing resources.

10. The logic of claim 8, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet application provider, and wherein the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are residential subscribers of an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

11. The logic of claim 8, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are ISP residential subscriber computing resources; and

the communications network is the Internet provided by the ISP.

12. The logic of claim 8, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system is an ISP residential subscriber computing resource of a separate subscriber to the ISP, and each of the first party computing resources are separate residential subscribers of the ISP; and

the communications network is the Internet provided by the ISP.

13. The logic of claim 8, wherein

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing systems other then the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system the communications network is characterized by a spatial scope less than or equal to a local area network.

14. The logic of claim 13, wherein the communications network comprises a Wi-Fi local area wireless computing network.

15. A system, comprising:

a storage device; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to;

partition, in each of a plurality of first party computing resources, each first party computing resource into a first party end user partition and a first party crowd-sourced cloud partition;

install a crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource;

orchestrate, by a cloud provider computing system and the crowd-sourced cloud application in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource, cloud services over a communications network, wherein orchestration comprises;

by the crowd-sourced cloud application in each first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of each first party computing resource, via the communications network;

registering at least one cloud service of the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of the first party computing resource with the cloud provider,

receiving, from the cloud provider computing system, one or more requests for registered crowd-sourced cloud services;

provisioning each registered crowd-sourced cloud service requested by the cloud provider computing system in the first party crowd-sourced cloud partition of the first party computing resource, and

operating each provisioned service; and

by the cloud provider computing system,

publishing each registered cloud service as available to crowd-sourced cloud user computing systems, and

receiving one or more requests for cloud services from a crowd-sourced cloud user computing system, and requesting, from a crowd-sourced cloud application of a particular first party computing resource, a registered crowd-sourced cloud service responsive to the request for cloud services from the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet application provider computing system, the cloud provider computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) computing system, and each of the first party computing resources are ISP residential subscriber computing resources.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet application provider, and wherein the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are residential subscribers of an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

18. The system of claim 15, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are ISP residential subscriber computing resources; and

the communications network is the Internet provided by the ISP.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein:

the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system is an ISP residential subscriber computing resource of a separate subscriber to the ISP, and each of the first party computing resources are separate residential subscribers of the ISP; and

the communications network is the Internet provided by the ISP.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing system, and the cloud provider computing system and each of the first party computing resources are Internet Service Provider (ISP) residential subscriber computing systems other then the crowd-sourced cloud user computing system the communications network is characterized by a spatial scope less than or equal to a local area network.