Elastic service provisioning via http-level surrogate management
AssigneeIDAC Holdings, Inc.
InventorsHongfei Du, Dirk Trossen, Renan Krishna, Sebastian Robitzsch
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Abstract
Content owners, origin servers, and other entities may wish to use elastic service provisioning to provide users improved service. For example, an origin server may wish to offload processing/network load to a surrogate server such that users of a service may experience improved performance. As another example, a content owner may wish to have content distributed to a number of surrogate servers to lower latency and improve bandwidth.
Claims20
A method for server management in a communications network, comprising:
- receiving, by a surrogate manager (SM) from a topology manager (TM) a request for a resource;
- determining, by the SM, a most suitable currently activated resource based on service level information available at the SM;
- transmitting, by the SM to the TM, information regarding the most suitable currently activated resource;
- calculating, by the SM, whether a more suitable resource is available but not currently active;
- on a condition that the more suitable resource is available but not currently active, activating, by the SM, the more suitable resource, and transmitting, by the SM to the TM, an indication that the TM should discover the more suitable resource.
A surrogate manager (SM) device for server management in a communications network, comprising:
- receiver circuitry operable to receive, from a topology manager (TM), a request for a resource;
- processing circuitry operable to determine a most suitable currently activated resource based on service level information available at the SM;
- transmitter circuitry operable to transmit, to the TM, information regarding the most suitable currently activated resource;
- the processing circuitry further operable to calculate whether a more suitable resource is available but not currently active;
- the processing circuitry further operable to, on a condition that the more suitable resource is available but not currently active, activating, by the SM, activate the more suitable resource, and to transmit to the TM, an indication that the TM should discover the more suitable resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.