Patent ID: 8898274
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of supporting operation of a plurality of distributed computing resources interconnected by a communication network, the method comprising: receiving information indicative of availability of at least some resources of the communication network, the information being in a supply format; translating at least some of the received information from the supply format to a target format usable by at least one of the distributed computing resources; and providing at least some of the translated information in the target format to the at least one of the distributed computing resources to enable analysis of availability of at least some resources of the communication network by the at least one of the distributed communications resources, wherein the supply format is a communications network format not directly readable by the at least one of the distributed computing resources; and the information indicative of availability of at least some resources comprises information indicative of available bandwidth between particular nodes of the communication network.