US 10,652,092 B2 · Methods and systems that collect and manage latency data in an automated resource-exchange system

Abstract

The current document is directed a resource-exchange system that facilitates resource exchange and sharing among computing facilities. The currently disclosed methods and systems employ efficient, distributed-search-based auction methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems that include large numbers of geographically distributed data centers to locate resource-provider computing facilities that match the resource needs of resource-consumer computing facilities. In one implementation, the resource-exchange system continuously collects communications-latency data for pairs of resource-exchange participants, in order to support latency constraints associated with potential resource exchanges. The collected data facilitates efficient, rapid, automated candidate-resource-provider selection during auction-based matching of resource consumers to resource providers.

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Dependent claims

An automated resource-exchange system comprising:

multiple resource-exchange computing-facility participants that each
includes multiple server computers, each having one or more processors and one or more memories, and
includes a local cloud-exchange instance;
and
a cloud-exchange system that
is implemented on one or more physical server computers, each including one or more processors and one or more memories,
includes a cloud-exchange engine,
receives a request to host a computational-resources-consuming entity from resource-exchange computing-facility participant for remote hosting of one or more computational-resources-consuming entities,
determines a set of one or more resource-exchange computing-facility participants for the hosting request by evaluating resource-exchange parameters and constraints, including one or more communications-latency constraints, and
selects one or more resource-exchange computing-facility participant from the set of one or more candidate resource-provider computing facilities to host the one or more computational-resources-consuming entities.

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A method for collecting communications latency data in an automated resource-exchange system comprising multiple resource-exchange computing-facility participants and a cloud-exchange system, the method comprising:

including a latency agent as part of a local cloud-exchange-system instance in each resource-exchange computing-facility participant;
and
repeatedly,
requesting, by each latency agent, a current list of potential resource-exchange computing-facility-participant partners from the cloud-exchange system,
collecting, by each latency agent, communications-latency data for communications between the resource-exchange computing-facility-participant and each potential resource-exchange computing-facility-participant partner in the current list;
and returning, by each latency agent, the collecting communications-latency data to the cloud-exchange system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods and systems that collect and manage latency data in an automated resource-exchange system

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Methods and systems that collect and manage latency data in an automated resource-exchange system

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