Patent ID: 11895042
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system that supports a crowd-sourced resource manager, the system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving private resource inventories for private networks, each of the private resource inventories indicating an inventory of computing resources in each of the private networks, wherein the private networks are managed by different operators and include a home network including one or more user devices located in a residential infrastructure;
deploying, on a host device in each of the private networks, an agent configured to determine an availability of the computing resources in each of the private networks;
receiving, from each of the agents, availability metrics indicating the availability of the computing resources in each of the private networks, wherein the computing resources are provided by the one or more user devices in the home network;
using the availability metrics, aggregating the available computing resources in a crowd-sourced cloud network;
receiving, from an enrolled user of the crowd-sourced cloud network, a request for use of a particular resource of the computing resources; and
providing the enrolled user with access to the particular resource that is in a particular private network of the private networks, wherein the particular resource is included in the one or more user devices in the home network.