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On-boarding services to a cloud environment

US8856382B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Rahul P. Akolkar · Austin, US
Paula K. Austel · Somers, US
Thomas A. Mikalsen · Cold Spring, US
Isabelle M. Rouvellou · New York, US
Alla Segal · Mount Kisco, US
Hidayatullah Habeebullah Shaikh · Potsdam, US
Ignacio Silva-Lepe · Putnam Valley, US
Revathi Subramanian · San Diego, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 30, 2012
Grant date	Oct 7, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 28, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/5072
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system in a cloud services environment comprises one or more service offerings, one or more service instances and one or more service support utilities. Each of the one or more service offerings is described by at least one service descriptor. Each of the one or more service instances is obtained from at least one of the one or more service offerings. Each of the one or more service support utilities is customized by at least one service descriptor. A service comprises at least one component and a service descriptor comprises one or more models.

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