Patent ID: 9098562
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a shared storage system including data and file system metadata separated from the data, wherein the file system metadata includes location data specifying storage location information related to the data stored at the shared storage system, wherein a producer service is provided to a provider device via the shared storage system, wherein a consumer service is provided to a consumer device via the shared storage system, wherein the producer service, in response to a request to access service data associated with the consumer service, communicates the service data to the consumer device by storing the service data at the shared storage system, wherein the consumer device receives the service data from the producer service by reading the service data from the shared storage system, wherein the producer service is stored as a first set of one or more instructions at the shared storage system, wherein the provider device is configured to instantiate an instance of the producer service using the first set of one or more instructions, wherein the consumer service is stored as a second set of one or more instructions at the shared storage system, wherein the second set of one or more instructions are retrieved from the shared storage system by the device, wherein the device is configured to instantiate an instance of the consumer service using the second set of the one or more instructions, and wherein the instance of the consumer service is automatically deleted from the device when the instance of the consumer service is terminated.