Dynamically selecting service provider, computing system, computer, and program

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9176710
APP PUB NO 20130097578A1
SERIAL NO

13649516

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To enable a service consumer that can use multiple service providers to dynamically select a service provider that satisfies a service level requested for each processing method to be called at the time of execution of an application. A cloud service directory (CSD) provides an evaluation table indicative of the evaluation of resource information on each cloud service provider (CSP), and each cloud service consumer (CSC) defines service levels requested by itself and items of resource information associated with each processing method as a request table and an association table, respectively. Then, the formats of these tables and the definitions of the service levels are standardized throughout the entire computing system. This enables each CSC to use a distribution table in order to select and use an appropriate CSP for each processing method.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Motoki, Toshiyasu Zama, JP 7 76
Tateno, Dan Setagaya-ku, JP 3 33

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