System and method for dynamic stopping of cloud-based provisioning requests

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10904124-B2
Application number	US-201816183024-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2018
Priority date	Nov 7, 2018
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a service broker on a first computing device, a status probe associated with at least a portion of a service, wherein the status probe may be sent from a platform on a second computing device. A response to the status probe may be generated, wherein the response may include a status of at least the portion of the service, and wherein the response may further include additional information. The response may be sent with the status and the additional information to the platform.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, at a service broker on a first computing device, a status probe associated with at least a portion of a service, wherein the status probe is sent from a platform on a second computing device;
generating a response to the status probe, wherein the response includes a status of at least the portion of the service, and wherein the response further includes additional information;
sending the response with the status and the additional information to the platform; and
receiving subsequent status probes from the platform at a geometric progression of interval frequency with a common predefined ratio.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the additional information includes a future expected down time of at least the portion of the service.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the additional information includes an expected duration for down time of at least the portion of the service.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein at least the portion of the service includes at least one of the service and one or more service instances of the service.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising generating a response to at least one of the subsequent status probes with updates to the expected duration for down time in the additional information.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the additional information is included in a header of the response to the status probe.

7. A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a service broker on a first computing device, a status probe associated with at least a portion of a service, wherein the status probe is sent from a platform on a second computing device;
generating a response to the status probe, wherein the response includes a status of at least the portion of the service, and wherein the response further includes additional information;
sending the response with the status and the additional information to the platform; and
receiving subsequent status probes from the platform at a geometric progression of interval frequency with a common predefined ratio.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the additional information includes a future expected down time of at least the portion of the service.

9. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the additional information includes an expected duration for down time of at least the portion of the service.

10. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein at least the portion of the service includes at least one of the service and one or more service instances of the service.

11. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the instructions further comprise generating a response to at least one of the subsequent status probes with updates to the expected duration for down time in the additional information.

12. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the additional information is included in a header of the response to the status probe.

13. A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a service broker on a first computing device, a status probe associated with at least a portion of a service, wherein the status probe is sent from a platform on a second computing device;
generating a response to the status probe, wherein the response includes a status of at least the portion of the service, and wherein the response further includes additional information;
sending the response with the status and the additional information to the platform; and
receiving subsequent status probes from the platform at a geometric progression of interval frequency with a common predefined ratio.

14. The computing system of claim 13 wherein the additional information includes a future expected down time of at least the portion of the service.

15. The computing system of claim 13 wherein the additional information includes an expected duration for down time of at least the portion of the service.

16. The computing system of claim 13 wherein at least the portion of the service includes at least one of the service and one or more service instances of the service.

17. The computing system of claim 13 wherein the additional information is included in a header of the response to the status probe.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Raman Rajan
• Shetty Rohit

Classifications

• H04L67/562

  Brokering proxy services · CPC title

• H04L43/10 Primary

  Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route · CPC title

• H04L43/0817

  by checking functioning · CPC title

• H04L43/103 Primary

  with adaptive polling, i.e. dynamically adapting the polling rate · CPC title

• H04L67/2809

  Electricity · mapped topic