Patent ID: 9584435
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a device of a cloud computing environment, information associated with one or more computing resources of a local portion of the cloud computing environment; receiving, by the device and from a global allocator device, a request for placement of a computing resource element at a selected computing resource of the one or more computing resources, determining, by the device and based on the information associated with the one or more computing resources, whether the request can be satisfied by the selected computing resource, placing, by the device, the requested computing resource element in the selected computing resource when the request can be satisfied by the selected computing resource; and sending, by the device and to the global allocator device, a message indicating that the requested computing resource element has been successfully placed in the selected computing resource when the requested computing resource element is placed in the selected computing resource.