Patent ID: 7685597

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions computer-executable to perform operations comprising: encoding a first association between a single computer resource and one or more resource management policies for the single computer resource; encoding a second association between the single computer resource and one or more resource management policies for the single computer resource, wherein at least one of the one or more resource management policies associated with the single resource by the second encoding is different from the one or more policies associated with the single resource by the first encoding; a policy imposing isolate installing in a first resource domain structure a set of one or more policy actions corresponding to the one or more resource management policies associated with the single resource by the first encoding; binding one or more encapsulated computations that are consumers of the single resource to a single one of the first and second encodings; and executing the one or more encapsulated computations in accordance with the one or more resource management policies for the single computer resource that are associated with the single computer resource by the single encoding that is bound to the one or more encapsulated computations.