James Gregory Beck

US Patent:

6604140, Aug 5, 2003

Filed:

Sep 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/404661

Inventors:

James Edward Beck - Tarrytown NY
Alain Franck Gefflaut - Elmsford NY
Nayeem Islam - Bellevue WA

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15173

US Classification:

709226, 709201, 709225, 709229

Abstract:

A method, apparatus and computer product that enables one or more computing devices to discover and use services over a network, which may be ad-hoc when the computing device is mobile. Service discovery is based on periodic multicasting of exported service descriptions to nearby devices over the (ad-hoc) network. Middleware enables a device to discover, advertise and use services. This enables software clients on the same device to share a service implementation (in the case of a local service) or to share an implementation proxy (in the case of a remote service). Each device being aware of the services (and service locations) that are currently available generally reduces the response time associated with accessing available services. While service descriptors are multicast and discovered, the service software is only downloaded on the device when the service is used. This enables economical resource management that is particularly useful for mobile devices.

US Patent:

20200057663, Feb 20, 2020

Filed:

Aug 15, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/541996

Inventors:

- Montreal, CA
James BECK - Jersey City NJ, US
Jacquelyn DU - Jersey City NJ, US
Charles WALKER - Jersey City NJ, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/455
G06F 16/22
G06N 20/00

Abstract:

System and methods providing for categorizing individual virtual machines, as well as the associated application that they form by working in concert, into groups based on the feasibility of hosting the processes that occur on a virtual machine within a container, as well as the relative difficulty of doing so on a virtual machine and application level. The data used to create these scores is collected from the individual machines, at regular intervals through the use of an automated scoring engine that collects and aggregates the data. Said data is then analyzed by the system, that with the aid of passed in configuration data, is configured to generate the scores to allows for an educated and focused effort to migrate from hosting applications on virtual machines to hosting applications on containers.