Charging resource usage in a distributed computing environment

US9665837B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• John Michael Garrison · Austin, US
• Kent Hayes · Chapel Hill, US
• Brian D. Jeffrey · Atlanta, US
• Yih-Shin Tan · Raleigh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 2008
• Grant date: May 30, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q20/20
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of allocating costs for resource usage in a distributed computing environment includes creating a standardized template for deploying a desired functionality within the distributed computing environment; the standardized template defining computing resources of the distributed computing environment needed to support the desired functionality, associating fixed costs with the computing resources, and calculating a total allocated cost associated with the standardized template by referencing the fixed costs. A system of allocating costs for resource usage in a distributed computing environment includes a standardized template for deploying a desired functionality within the distributed computing environment, the standardized template defining a plurality of interconnected computing resources, a fixed cost associated with each of the plurality of interconnected computing resources, and a software application configured to sum the fixed costs to produce a total cost for deploying the desired functionality.