Cloud federation as a service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9749398-B2
Application number	US-201414584744-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2014
Priority date	Dec 17, 2009
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

A Cloud federator may be used to allow seamless and transparent access by a Cloud Client to Cloud services. Federation may be provided on various terms, including as a subscription based real-time online service to Cloud Clients. The Cloud federator may automatically and transparently effect communication between the Cloud Client and Clouds and desired services of the Clouds, and automatically perform identity federation. A Service Abstraction Layer (SAL) may be implemented to simplify Client communication, and Clouds/Cloud services may elect to support the SAL to facilitate federation of their services.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a request from a cloud-based client computing device to access a first service of a first cloud-based server computing device and a second service of a second cloud-based server computing device;
validating the cloud-based client computing device to access the first and second services, wherein validating includes establishing a single access account for the cloud-based client computing device to simultaneously access multiple services from multiple cloud service providers across a cloud network, wherein the single access account offers a single avenue for automatic migration of data relating to the multiple services and dynamic interoperability between the multiple service providers, wherein the multiple services includes the first and second services, and wherein the multiple cloud service providers include the first and second cloud-based server computing devices;
determining an interface preference associated with the cloud-based client computing device;
identifying a first interface of the first cloud-based server computing device corresponding to the interface preference; and
mapping data between the cloud-based client computing device and the first cloud-based server computing device to make data from the first cloud-based server computing device having a first format to be in accord with the interface preference.

2. The method of claim 1 , in which the first service is based on a first access term, the method further comprising:
receiving another request from the cloud-based client computing device to access a third service of a third cloud-based server computing device, the third service based on a second access term different from the first access term; and
validating the cloud-based client computing device to access the third cloud service, wherein validating is based on the single access account to simultaneously access the multiple services from the multiple cloud service providers across the cloud network, wherein the multiple services includes the third services and wherein the multiple cloud service providers include the third cloud-based server computing device,
wherein validating the cloud-based client computing device to access one or more of the first, second, and third services from one or more of the first, second, and third cloud-based server computing devices, respectively, based at least in part on the first and second access terms.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein one or more of the first, second, and third services are accessed in real-time.

4. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving a request from a cloud-based client computing device to access a first service of a first cloud-based server computing device and a second service of a second cloud-based server computing device;
validating the cloud-based client computing device to access the first and second services, wherein validating includes establishing a single access account for the cloud-based client computing device to simultaneously access multiple services from multiple cloud service providers across a cloud network, wherein the single access account offers a single avenue for automatic migration of data relating to the multiple services and dynamic interoperability between the multiple service providers, wherein the multiple services includes the first and second services, and wherein the multiple cloud service providers include the first and second cloud-based server computing devices;
determining an interface preference associated with the Cloud Client;
identifying a first interface of the first Cloud corresponding to the interface preference; and
mapping data between the Cloud Client and the first Cloud to make data from the first Cloud having a first format to be in accord with the interface preference.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 4 , in which the first service is based on a first access term, the operations further comprise:
receiving another request from the cloud-based client computing device to access a third service of a third cloud-based server computing device, the third service based on a second access term different from the first access term; and
validating the cloud-based client computing device to access the third cloud service, wherein validating is based on the single access account to simultaneously access the multiple services from the multiple cloud service providers across the cloud network, wherein the multiple services includes the third services and wherein the multiple cloud service providers include the third cloud-based server computing device,
wherein validating the cloud-based client computing device to access one or more of the first, second, and third services from one or more of the first, second, and third cloud-based server computing devices, respectively, based at least in part on the first and second access terms.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 5 , wherein one or more of the first, second, and third services are accessed in real-time.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Li Hong

Classifications

• H04L63/102

  Entity profiles · CPC title

• G06F9/5055

  considering software capabilities, i.e. software resources associated or available to the machine · CPC title

• H04L63/0815

  providing single-sign-on or federations · CPC title

• H04L67/42

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title