US 10,650,424 B2Granted

Dynamic cloud solution catalog

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSaiprasad Kolluri Venkata Sesha, Takayuki Kushida

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Abstract

A cloud infrastructure is disclosed that includes: a cloud portal for providing user access to cloud resources; a cloud catalog database having a catalog list of cloud resources; a cloud catalog solution generator that populates the cloud catalog database, wherein the cloud catalog solution generator includes: a first interface process for receiving event data for resources associated within a cloud infrastructure; a second interface process for receiving usage/account information, monitored information, and document information; an aggregation system that continuously aggregates the event data with the usage/account information, monitored information, and document information to create a dynamic catalog list having supplementary information for items in the catalog list; and a third interface process for outputting the dynamic catalog list to a cloud catalog database; and a cloud catalog suggestion engine that processes user inputs entered via the cloud portal and outputs a set of suggested items from the cloud catalog database.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A cloud infrastructure, comprising:

a computing system including a display screen, the computing system including:
a cloud portal for providing user access to cloud resources;
a cloud catalog database having a catalog list of cloud resources;
a cloud catalog solution generator that populates the cloud catalog database, wherein the cloud catalog solution generator includes:
a first interface process for receiving event data for resources associated within a cloud infrastructure;
a second interface process for receiving usage/account information, monitored information, and document information;
an aggregation system that continuously aggregates the event data with the usage/account information, monitored information, and document information to create a dynamic catalog list having supplementary information for items in the catalog list, wherein the document information includes links to documents associated with cloud resources;
and
a third interface process for outputting the dynamic catalog list to a cloud catalog database;
a cloud catalog suggestion engine that processes user inputs entered via the cloud portal and provides a set of suggested items from the cloud catalog database;
the computing device being configured to display on the display screen via the cloud portal the set of suggested items from the cloud catalog database and a menu of selectable hyperlinks for each suggested item, the selectable hyperlinks for each suggested item being selectable by a user to access and display on the display screen at least a portion of the supplementary information associated with the suggested item, the hyperlinks including links to previous deployments including the suggested items;
and
a provisioning system for receiving, via the cloud portal, a user selection of a set of the suggested items from the cloud catalog.

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A method for deploying a cloud infrastructure, comprising:

allowing, by a computer infrastructure including a computing system coupled to a display screen, user access to cloud resources via a cloud portal;
populating, by a cloud catalog solution generator, a cloud catalog database, the populating comprising:
receiving, by a first interface process of the cloud catalog solution generator, event data for resources associated within a cloud environment;
receiving, by a second interface process of the cloud catalog solution generator, usage and/or account information, monitored information, and document information;
continuously arrogating, by an aggregation system of the cloud catalog solution generator, the event data with the usage and/or account information, the monitored information, and the document information to create a dynamic catalog list having supplementary information for items in the catalog list, wherein the document information includes links to documents associated with cloud resources;
outputting, by a third interface process of the cloud catalog solution generator, the dynamic catalog list to the cloud catalog database;
and
processing, by a cloud catalog suggestion engine, user inputs entered via the cloud portal, wherein the cloud catalog suggestion engine further provides a set of suggested items from the cloud catalog database;
displaying on the display screen via the cloud portal the set of suggested items from the cloud catalog database and a menu of selectable hyperlinks for each suggested item, the selectable hyperlinks for each suggested item being selectable by a user to access and display on the display screen at least a portion of the supplementary information associated with the suggested item, the hyperlinks including links to previous deployments including the suggested items;
and
receiving, by a provisioning system via the cloud portal, a user selection of a set of the suggested items from the cloud catalog.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/660,610Filed 17 Mar 2015
Published: US 2016/0275577 A122 Sep 2016
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06Q 30/0603
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: catalogue creation or management
G06F 16/954
Retrieval from the web: navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
G06Q 30/0631
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: recommending goods or services
G06Q 30/0643
Utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping: graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation