Remote provisioning of information technology

US8402110B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer · Mercer Island, US
• William H. Gates, III · Bellevue, US
• Raymond E. Ozzie · Seattle, US
• Gary W. Flake · Bellevue, US
• Thomas F. Bergstraesser · Kirkland, US
• Arnold Blinn · Clyde Hill, US
• Christopher W. Brumme · Mercer Island, US
• Lili Cheng · Bellevue, US
• Nishant V. Dani · Issaquah, US
• Daniel S. Glasser · Mercer Island, US
• Alexander G. Gounares · Kirkland, US
• Galen C. Hunt · Bellevue, US
• James R. Larus · Mercer Island, US
• Matthew Bret MacLaurin · Woodinville, US
• Debi P. Mishra · Bellevue, US
• Amit Mital · Bellevue, US
• Ira L. Snyder, Jr. · Bellevue, US
• Chandramohan A. Thekkath · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 30, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/10
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Remote provisioning of an IT network and/or associated services is provided. Hardware, software, service and/or expertise can be moved from on-premise to a remote location (e.g., central, distributed . . . ). Accordingly, at least a large degree computation can be moved to the center to exploit economies of scale, among other things. In such an architecture, computational resources (e.g., data storage, computation power, cache . . . ) can be pooled, and entities can subscribe to a particular level of resources related to a private entity IT network.