Patent ID: 9165266
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A resource management framework, comprising: a set of computer devices that includes at least one computer device and having: agents for receiving priorities and computing needs from buyers, and for programmatically determining, based on the priorities and computing needs received by the agents, whether a negotiation strategy for bidding that is cooperative or a negotiation strategy that is competitive will more effectively achieve the priorities and computing needs; and a resource unit broker for receiving bids from agents, wherein the bids reflect the determining, for applying service level characteristics to groups of resources in response to the bids, the service level characteristics comprising a combination of at least two different characteristics selected from a group consisting of: availability, performance, recoverability, security, scalability, and operational support; determining by the resource unit broker, after the bids have been received, a winning bid to apply the service level characteristics and determining whether any auctions and corresponding winning bids can be placed in isolation for any of the selected service level characteristics or determining whether to combine any of the auctions and corresponding winning bids in all or in part to achieve a holistic service level agreement when the agents are requesting similar or identical resources.