Patent ID: 11863434
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a trust-driven policy decision module configured on a centralized database system that stores information about an on-demand network of a plurality of network elements, an on-demand request for information;
receiving, at the trust-driven policy decision module, over a network and from a first device, a first trust pertaining to a requestor of the information;
receiving, at the trust-driven policy decision module, over the network and from a second device, a second trust pertaining to a destination of the on-demand request for the information;
evaluating, via the trust-driven policy decision module, the on-demand request based on a trust-level, wherein the trust-level corresponds to the first trust and the second trust, and wherein the trust-level comprises a time-dependent value;
selecting, via the trust-driven policy decision module, a policy from a plurality of possible policies based on the trust-level; and
implementing, according to the policy, on-demand compute resources from the on-demand network for the requestor of the information.