Method for facilitating network external computing assistance
AssigneeRISC Networks, LLC
InventorsJeremy Lynn Littlejohn, Gregory Evan Watts
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Abstract
There is provided a method for providing pricing information about a potential migration of a network computing task. The method includes the step of providing a provider availability set, identifying a price qualified set for each cloud service provider, and displaying the information about each cloud service provider and its pricing via a user interface. The price qualified set includes each cloud service provider: (a) whose price for performing the task complies with a price acceptability criteria or (b) that has a respective price proposal associated therewith reflecting a price for engaging the cloud service provider to perform the task in lieu of the task being performed by the network.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining, by an automated discovery system comprising one or more probe computing devices, that a computing operation performed by a set of assets of a network as part of a network computing task could not be performed if a particular asset were to be excluded from the set of assets;
- determining, by an intermediary system comprising one or more intermediary computing devices operating as an intermediary between the network and a plurality of cloud service providers, a resource of the plurality of cloud service providers to perform the network computing task;
- generating, by the intermediary system, a visual representation of information regarding the plurality of cloud service providers based at least partly on respective capabilities of the plurality of cloud service providers;
- causing, by the intermediary system, presentation of the visual representation via a user interface;
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- automatically migrating, by the intermediary system, the network computing task from the network to a cloud service provider of the plurality of cloud service providers based at least partly on an interaction with the user interface.
A system comprising:
- an automated discovery subsystem comprising one or more probe computing devices, wherein the automated discovery subsystem is configured to determine that a computing operation performed by a set of assets of a network as part of a network computing task could not be performed if a particular asset were to be excluded from the set of assets;
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- an intermediary subsystem comprising one or more intermediary computing devices operating as an intermediary between the network and a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the intermediary subsystem is configured to:
- determine one or more computing resources of the plurality of cloud service providers required to perform the network computing task;
- generate a visual representation of information regarding the plurality of cloud service providers based at least partly on respective capabilities of the plurality of cloud service providers;
- cause display of the visual representation via a user interface;
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- automatically migrate the network computing task from the network to a cloud service provider of the plurality of cloud service providers based at least partly on an interaction with the user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.