Patent ID: 11972299
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
identifying a sharable resource that is part of a first user's user environment and that is configured as sharable by the user, wherein user environment is a streaming application and the sharable resource is a private streaming operator;
locating a matching resource that matches the sharable resource, wherein the matching resource is a shared streaming operator that is used by pre-existing users of a shared computer environment;
obtaining agreement from the pre-existing users for the first user to access the matching resource, wherein the obtaining comprises confirming that the shared streaming operator is configured as public;
providing the first user access to the matching resource; wherein the providing comprises:
deleting the private streaming operator;
configuring an upstream operator in the user's streaming application to input data to the shared streaming operator; and
configuring a downstream operator in the user's streaming application to accept output data from the shared streaming operator; and

transferring data, after the providing, from the upstream operator to the shared streaming operator.