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Cross-cloud operation management

US10523493B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 30, 2018
Grant dateDec 31, 2019
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Expiry dateJun 27, 2038

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2009/45595
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Operations include executing operations across different third-party computing clouds provided by different vendors. A cloud discovery process allows for a virtual machine, executing on a computing cloud, to discover resources on a different computing cloud provided by a different vendor. The cloud discovery process is implemented by one or more cloud agents executing within third-party clouds. A cloud agent, corresponding to a third-party computing cloud, may use a cross-cloud repository that is maintained by a tenant to discover resources in other third-party computing clouds provided by different vendors. An Application Programming Interface (API) for accessing a particular third-party computing cloud may be exposed to a cloud agent of another third-party computing cloud provided by a different vendor. The cloud agent may trigger operations on the particular third-party computing cloud based on events detected by the cloud agent in the third-party computing cloud corresponding to the cloud agent.

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