Patent ID: 9628402
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for reservation of resources for a service, comprising: receiving a request for resources for a project duration with a start time and an end time; determining, using a processor, if the requested resources are available for the project duration; determining a utilization level of one or more resource provisioning components during a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project; determining if the one or more resource provisioning components have capacity to handle the provisioning of resources for the request prior to the start time of the project; and reserving the one or more resource provisioning components for a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project, and a reservation component booking the resources required for a specified duration of each project; determining a utilization level of one or more resource provisioning components during a de-provisioning time after the end time of the project; determining if the one or more resource provisioning components have capacity to handle the de-provisioning of resources for the request after the end time of the project; and reserving the one or more resource provisioning components for a de-provisioning time after the end time of the project.