Patent ID: 11924115
Assignee: IPCO 2012 LIMITED
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A processing network for allocating resources between data centers in response to insufficient resources at one of the data centers, the processing network comprising:
a first data center having a first ledger data structure, and a second data center having a second ledger data structure;
wherein the first data center configured to:
in response to a request for resources, determine whether said resources exceed remaining resources of the first data center;
in response to a determination that the requested resources exceed the remaining resources of the first data center:
reserve the remaining resources of the first data center;
append a first reserve entry for the remaining resources to the first ledger data structure; and
submit, to the second data center, a request to reserve a difference between the resources in the request and the remaining resources of the first data center; and

in response to expiration of a time interval without the reserved remaining resources being utilized, releasing, by the first data center, the reserved remaining resources for use in one or more subsequent requests for the resources; and

wherein the second data center is configured to:
determine whether said difference exceeds remaining resources of the second data center; and
in response to a determination that the difference does not exceed the remaining resources of the second data center:
reserve the difference from the remaining resources of the second data center;
append a second reserve entry to a second ledger of the second data center; and
notify the first data center of the reserved difference.