Patent ID: 9723068
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying a primary computing platform; identifying one or more secondary computing platforms; identifying a requesting virtual server, said requesting virtual server residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more requesting clients; identifying one or more donating virtual servers, said one or more donating virtual servers residing on said primary computing platform and being associated with one or more donating clients; identifying one or more external virtual servers, said one or more external virtual servers residing on said one or more secondary computing platforms; determining a resource donation scenario, said resource donation scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said requesting virtual server and said one or more donating virtual servers; determining a resource adjustment scenario, said resource adjustment scenario comprising one or more resource exchanges between said one or more external virtual servers; and determining a resource need condition; determining one or more resource adjustment criteria; and determining whether execution of said resource adjustment scenario satisfies said one or more resource adjustment criteria; and wherein determining said one or more resource adjustment criteria comprises: determining, for each of said one or more donating clients, a primary resource transfer value based on one or more operational properties of said primary computing platform; and determining, for each of said one or more donating clients, one or more secondary resource transfer values, said one or more secondary resource transfer values being operationally equivalent to said primary resource transfer value.