US 11,892,993 B2Granted

Techniques for efficient compute resource harvesting

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsGanesh Seetharaman, Robert Costin Velisar, Yuen Sheung Chan

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system and techniques for resolving dangling references resulting from a dependency relationship between computing resource objects uncovered during a harvesting process. In embodiments, a harvester application adds computing resource objects associated with a client to a resource collection as those computing resource objects are identified. Dependencies are identified as each computing resource object is added to the resource collection, which are resolved only if the computing resource objects associated with those dependencies have already been added to the resource collection. If the computing resource objects associated with the dependencies have not already been added to the resource collection, then the dependency is added to an observer pool. Observer modules are configured to check each computing resource object as it is processed during the harvest process in order to match those computing resource objects to unresolved dependencies.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

generating, by a collection service of a harvester application, a computing resource collection for a client from a catalog of computing resource objects by, for each computing resource object in the catalog of computing resource objects upon determining that the computing resource object is associated with the client:
adding the computing resource object to the computing resource collection;
identifying one or more dependencies for the computing resource object;
determining at least one unresolved dependency from the one or more dependencies, the at least one unresolved dependency including a particular dependency on a second computing resource object, the second computing resource object outside of the computing resource collection;
adding a third computing resource object to the computing resource collection;
responsive to the third computing resource object being different from the second computing resource object:
maintaining the at least one unresolved dependency for the computing resource object in an unresolved state;
and
responsive to the third computing resource object corresponding to the second computing resource object:
resolving, by an observer module of the harvester application, the at least one unresolved dependency upon detecting that the collection service has added the second computing resource object associated with the unresolved dependency to the computing resource collection.

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A computing device comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory including instructions that, when executed with the processor, cause the computing device to, at least:
generate a computing resource collection for a client from a catalog of computing resource objects by, for each computing resource object in the catalog of computing resource objects upon determining that the computing resource object is associated with the client:
adding the computing resource object to the computing resource collection;
identifying one or more dependencies for the computing resource object;
determining at least one unresolved dependency from the one or more dependencies, the at least one unresolved dependency including a particular dependency on a second computing resource object, the second computing resource object outside of the computing resource collection;
adding a third computing resource object to the computing resource collection;
responsive to the third computing resource object being different from the second computing resource object:
maintaining the at least one unresolved dependency for the computing resource object in an unresolved state;
and
responsive to the third computing resource object corresponding to the second computing resource object:
resolving the unresolved dependency upon detecting that a collection service has added the second computing resource object associated with the unresolved dependency to the computing resource collection.

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A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

generating a computing resource collection for a client from a catalog of computing resource objects by, for each computing resource object in the catalog of computing resource objects upon determining that the computing resource object is associated with the client:
adding the computing resource object to the computing resource collection;
identifying one or more dependencies for the computing resource object;
determining at least one unresolved dependency from the one or more dependencies, the at least one unresolved dependency including a particular dependency on a second computing resource object, the second computing resource object outside of the computing resource collection;
adding a third computing resource object to the computing resource collection;
responsive to the third computing resource object being different from the second computing resource object:
maintaining the at least one unresolved dependency for the computing resource object in an unresolved state;
and
responsive to the third computing resource object corresponding to the second computing resource object:
resolving the at least one unresolved dependency upon detecting that collection service has added the second computing resource object associated with the unresolved dependency to the computing resource collection.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.