MARKETPLACE FOR CLOUD SERVICES RESOURCES

• US 20080080396A1
• Filed: 12/20/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: MacLaurin, Matthew B., Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Flake, Gary W., Bolosky, William J., Larus, James R., Gounares, Alexander G., Glasser, Daniel S., Dani, Nishant V., Gates, William H.
• Application Number:
  US11/613,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20080080396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate dynamically allocating resources (e.g., hardware, software, . . . ) supported by a third party service provider. The third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as compared to conventional systems/techniques due to improved connectivity and mitigated latencies. An interface component can receive a request from a client device. Further, a dynamic allocation component can apportion resources (e.g., hardware resources) supported by the third party service provider to process and respond to the request based at least in part upon subscription data. Moreover, a user state evaluator can determine a state associated with a user and/or the client device; the state can be utilized by the dynamic allocation component to tailor resource allocation.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates transferring resources, comprising:

a third party service provider that supports distributed hardware resources spread across a network to process and respond to an input; and

a dynamic allocation component that adds available hardware resources from one or more client devices.

2. The system of claim 1, the dynamic allocation component adds available hardware resources from the one or more client devices when such hardware resources are one of unutilized and underutilized.

3. The system of claim 1, the dynamic allocation component credits an account of a subscriber based upon the added available hardware resources.

4. The system of claim 1, the dynamic allocation component brokers the hardware resources to match supply and demand.

5. The system of claim 1, the third party service provider guarantees a minimum level of service by at least one of providing a subset of the hardware resources and contracting with sub-providers.

6. The system of claim 1, the dynamic allocation component dynamically allots the supported hardware resources.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising an auction component that transfers at least a subset of the allotted resources that are unutilized.

8. The system of claim 7, the auction component facilitates at least one of selling, bartering, donating, trading, exchanging, and auctioning the unutilized, allotted resources.

9. The system of claim 7, the auction component dynamically prices the unutilized, allotted resources over time based upon one or more of a supply, a demand, and characteristics of the unutilized, allotted resources.

10. The system of claim 7, the auction component obtains user input that indicates the unutilized, allotted resources offered to be transferred.

11. The system of claim 7, the auction component automatically selects the unutilized, allotted resources available for transfer.

12. The system of claim 7, the auction component suggests to make available the unutilized, allotted resources for transfer.

13. The system of claim 7, the auction component determines a fair market price for the unutilized, allotted resources involved in the transfer.

14. A method that facilitates transferring resources, comprising:

dynamically apportioning distributed hardware resources supported by a third party service provider; and

adding disparate hardware resources available from one or more client devices, the disparate hardware resources thereafter being dynamically apportioned.

15. The method of claim 14, adding disparate hardware resources when such hardware resources are one of unutilized and underutilized by the one or more client devices.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising crediting an account of a subscriber based upon the added disparate hardware resources.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising guaranteeing a minimum level of service associated with the third party service provider.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising trading a subset of the apportioned distributed hardware resources.

19. The method of claim 18, trading further comprises one or more of selling, bartering, donating, exchanging, and auctioning the subset of the apportioned resources.

20. A system that facilitates transferring distributed hardware resources supported by a third party service provider, comprising:

means for adding hardware resources supported by the third party service provider, the added hardware resources being hardware resources of one or more client devices; and

means for allotting the hardware resources based at least in part upon subscription data.