US 9,854,032 B2Granted

Context-aware task offloading among multiple devices

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSu Liu, Eric J. Rozner, Chin Ngai Sze, Yaoguang Wei

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates to offloading computing tasks from a user device to a cloud service. In one embodiment, a method generally includes generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service. The user device ranks the user device and one or more peer devices in a network based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the peer devices, and the user device selects one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command based on the ranking information. Upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, the user device transmits the command to the cloud service. If the user device is not one of the selected devices, the user device discards the generated command.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method for a user device to offload computing tasks to a cloud service, the method comprising:

generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service;
based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the one or more peer devices, ranking the user device and the one or more peer devices, wherein the ranking comprises generating a score for each of the user device and the one or more peer devices based on a weighting of one or more characteristics of the user device and the one or more peer devices;
selecting one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command to the cloud service for processing based on the ranking information;
upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, transmitting the command to the cloud service;
and
upon determining that the user device is not one of the selected devices, discarding the generated command.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/089,848Filed 4 Apr 2016 · continuation
Priority: 5 Feb 2016
Published: US 2017/0230446 A110 Aug 2017
Granted: 26 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 67/104
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
H04L 67/1001
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…

Family

Application15/017,399Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Feb 2016
US 2017/0230446 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Aug 2017
US 10,044,798 B2Related patent
US 2017/0230448 A1Published application
US 9,854,032 B2This patent

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