Context-aware task offloading among multiple devices

• US 10,044,798 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2016
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Su, Rozner, Eric J., Sze, Chin Ngai, Wei, Yaoguang
• Primary Examiner(s): Baturay, Alicia
• Application Number:
  US15/017,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20170230448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 709217
• 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 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to offloading computing tasks from a user device to a cloud service. In one embodiment, a method generally includes generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service. The user device ranks the user device and one or more peer devices in a network based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the peer devices, and the user device selects one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command based on the ranking information. Upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, the user device transmits the command to the cloud service. If the user device is not one of the selected devices, the user device discards the generated command.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to perform an operation to offload, from a user device, computing tasks to a cloud service, the operation comprising;

generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service;

based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the one or more peer devices, ranking the user device and the one or more peer devices, wherein the ranking comprises generating a score for each of the user device and the one or more peer devices based on a weighting of one or more characteristics of the user device and the one or more peer devices;

selecting one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command to the cloud service for processing based on the ranking information;

upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, transmitting the command to the cloud service; and

upon determining that the user device is not one of the selected devices, discarding the generated command.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the selecting one or more of the user device and the one or more peer devices comprises designating a master device to communicate with the cloud service.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the operations further comprise:

upon determining that the user device is not the master device;

transmitting the command to the master device;

or

transmitting the command to a selected device other than the master device for offloading to the cloud service.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a response from the cloud service.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on partitioning information in the response, outputting at least a portion of the response on the user device.

6. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the operations further comprise:

partitioning the response into a plurality of discrete parts; and

based on the information about the user device and the one or more peer devices, selecting one or more of the parts to output on the user device.

7. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing one or more instructions, which, when executed by the processor, perform an operation to offload, from a user device, computing tasks to a cloud service, the operation comprising;

generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service;

based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the one or more peer devices, ranking the user device and the one or more peer devices, wherein the ranking comprises generating a score for each of the user device and the one or more peer devices based on a weighting of one or more characteristics of the user device and the one or more peer devices;

selecting one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command to the cloud service for processing based on the ranking information;

upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, transmitting the command to the cloud service; and

upon determining that the user device is not one of the selected devices, discarding the generated command.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the selecting one or more of the user device and the one or more peer devices comprises designating a master device to communicate with the cloud service.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

upon determining that the user device is not the master device;

transmitting the command to the master device;

or

transmitting the command to a selected device other than the master device for offloading to the cloud service.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a response from the cloud service.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on partitioning information in the response, outputting at least a portion of the response on the user device.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

partitioning the response into a plurality of discrete parts; and

based on the information about the user device and the one or more peer devices, selecting one or more of the parts to output on the user device.