Patent ID: 7200589
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of advertising capabilities of data centers, comprising: storing at a computing arrangement respective capability data sets for one or more of a plurality of data centers, wherein each capability data set includes terms that specify resources available at a data center; associating respective format descriptions with the capability data sets, wherein each format description defines a syntax in which capabilities are described in a capability data set; associating with the terms in the capability data sets, respective references to definitions in a first network accessible dictionary; receiving queries from requesting data centers at the computing arrangement, each query including at least one term that specifies a resource and for each term a respective reference to a definition of the term in a second network accessible dictionary; parsing the capability data sets according to the associated format descriptions, and determining which of the capability data sets has terms that satisfy each query; in response to each capability data set that has terms that satisfy the query, for each term in the query and a corresponding term from the capability data set that satisfies the term of the query, comparing the respectively referenced definition in the second dictionary to the respectively referenced definition in the first dictionary; and providing to a requesting data center, in response to each query from the requesting data center, each capability data set that satisfies the query and that has for each term from the capability data set that satisfies a term of the query, a definition from the first dictionary that matches a definition from the second dictionary of the term in the query.