Method and Apparatus For Web Based Storage On-Demand
AssigneeSheng Tai (Ted) Tsao
InventorSheng Tai (Ted) Tsao
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Abstract
The operation efficiency of a large scale distributed server infrastructure is critical to end users due to a larger number of individual computing units in the infrastructure require to be operated. The introduction of the multi-layered server structure of present invention leads to secure and efficient manage and access to the larger number of computing units in the server structure because the middle level control server has effectively shared the burden of controlling the larger number of the computing units from a centralized control server in the server structure for the management and access.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
The method as recited in the claim 1, comprising:
- forming automatically at least a second service pool of a plurality of third level servers via executing a service pool automatic construction protocol between each of the third level servers and an associated second middle level server and;
- adding automatically the second middle level server into the middle level pool via execution of a service pool automatic construction protocol between the top level server and the second middle level server;
- and
- displaying additional information about the second middle level servers and the associated second service pool to the user to allow the user via the information displayed selectively requesting access to the top level server, the first and second middle level servers and the third level servers in each of the first and second service pools.
The method as recited in the claim 3, wherein each of the first and second middle level servers is operable to display information about self and about an associated service pool to a user to allow the user via the information displayed selectively requesting access only to the each of the first and second middle lever servers and/or to one or more third level servers in the associated service pool.
A scalable system supporting centralized operations, the system comprising:
- at least one top level server,
- one first middle level servers, and
- a plurality of third level servers;
- wherein
- the system is configured to be dynamically scale up to facilitating centralized operation control by:
- forming automatically a first service pool of the third level servers via executing a service pool automatic construction protocol between the first middle level server and each of the third level servers;
- adding automatically the first middle level server into a middle level pool via execution of a service pool automatic construction protocol between the top level server and the first middle level server;
- and
- displaying, by the top level server, information about the top level server and information about the first middle level server including information about the associated first service pool to a user to allow the user via the information displayed selectively access to the top level server, the first middle level server, and the third level servers in the first service pool.
A program product, for supporting centralized operation control for a scalable system, the program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:
- program code configured to cause executing a service pool automatic construction protocol between a first middle level server and each of a plurality of the third level servers to automatically form a first service pool;
- program code configured to cause executing a service pool automatic construction protocol between a top level server and the first middle level server to automatically add the first middle level server into a middle level pool;
- and
- program code to cause the top level server displaying information about self and information about the first middle level server including information about the associated first service pool to a user to allow the user via the information displayed selectively access to the top level server, the first middle level server, and the third level servers in the first service pool.
A method of supporting centralized operation control for a scalable system:
- forming automatically a first service pool of a plurality of third level servers via executing a service pool automatic construction protocol between each of the third level servers and an associated first middle level server and;
- adding automatically the first middle level server into a middle level pool via execution of a service pool automatic construction protocol between a top level server and the first middle level server;
- and
- displaying, by the top level server, information about the top level server and information about the first middle level server including information about the associated first service pool to a user to allow the user via the information displayed selectively access to the top level server, the first middle level server, and the third level servers in the first service pool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.