Integrated metering of service usage for hybrid clouds

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9473374
APP PUB NO 20160182334A1
SERIAL NO

15054955

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A hybrid cloud environment is provided where a user of cloud computing services is disposed to consume cloud provided services delivered by each of a plurality of cloud computing service providers. Specified event data is received at an MCS component. The event data pertains to metering events related to the cloud provided services delivered by one or more cloud service providers. Event data include event data furnished by one or more entities that actively monitor metering events at one or more local or remote cloud service provider locations. Event data are sent from the MCS component to a metering system. The metering system generates reports from the event data that contains usage information on services provided by one or more cloud service providers. Information for a provider specifies amounts and quality of each type of service delivered to users by the provider.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Beaty, Kirk A Goldens Bridge, US 40 1972
Buckley, John G Cork, IE 2 133
Katsuno, Yasuharu Chigasaki, JP 17 177
Kundu, Ashish Elmsford, US 183 3302
Naik, Vijay K Pleasantville, US 44 2589
O'Halloran, Julia L Cork, IE 2 133

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