US 2011/0235592 A1 · NETWORK RESOURCE LEASING

Abstract

Techniques for allowing network terminals to lease resources from one another. In an exemplary embodiment, an owner terminal determines the availability of resources (locally available or remotely accessible) to share with other terminals. The owner terminal establishes service and price level terms for sharing its resource, and advertises those terms to other terminals. A user terminal determines its own resource requirements, and searches a network for one or more owner terminals offering the desired resource. An owner terminal and a user terminal negotiate on the terms for use of an identified resource, and the owner terminal leases the resource to the user terminal. Applications include a virtual data center for leasing file storage space, network traffic bandwidth leasing to devices such as mobile phones, ad hoc distributed computing architectures, and third-party operating system (OS) support schemes.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a processor;
and
at least one memory coupled to the processor, the at least one memory storing instructions for causing the processor to implement an application module configured to run an application and a user broker module configured to:
determine a requirement set of the application module;
identify at least one remote terminal having a resource to at least partially satisfy the requirement set of the application module;
enable the application module to use the resource of the at least one remote terminal according to a service agreement;
and
arrange for the at least one remote terminal to be compensated based on the use of the resource.

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