Managed Arbitration for Platform Capability Manifest (PCM) Configuration in a Multiservice Framework

Abstract

Disclosed methods and systems leverage a multiservice framework to provision a host system based on platform supported capabilities indicated in a platform capability manifest (PCM). Upon receiving a candidate manifest, indicative of one or more requested capabilities, manifest conflict information, identifying the requested capabilities, is generated. After obtaining arbitration policy information for resolving capability conflicts and requests, a resolved manifest is generated based on the PCM, the manifest conflict information, and the arbitration policy. In this manner, the resolved manifest enables the host to deny or accommodate capability requests in accordance with the arbitration policy. The multiservice framework may be again leveraged to provision the host system in accordance with the resolved manifest. The candidate request can include a user capability manifest identifying a particular user and capabilities the user is permitted to request or an application initiated manifest identifying an application and one or more dependencies the application has.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.