1202 results about "Cloud computing services" patented technology

A method and system for real-time analytics of sensor-based data is disclosed. Also disclosed is a Cloud-based Paltform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for sensor driven applications with services and features for their complete life-cycle management including prompt development, testing, deployment and so forth. The method of the present disclosure enables real-time tracking of various physical parameters and attributes related to smart-spaces using sensor devices implemented in the premises of the smart-space environment and using crowd-sourced user input data. Further, the parameters obtained are sent to the cloud-computing server, wherein the analytics are performed in real-time based on the obtained parameters.

The invention relates to a cloud computing resource scheduling method based on dynamic reconfiguration virtual resources. The method comprises the steps of: using cloud application load information collected by a cloud application monitor as a basis; making a dynamic decision based on the load capacity of the virtual resources for running cloud application and the current load of the cloud application; and dynamically reconfiguring virtual resources for cloud application based on the decision result. Dynamic adjustment of resources is realized by a method for reconfiguring virtual resources for cloud application, without needing dynamic redistribution of physical resources or stopping executing cloud application. The method can dynamically reconfigure the virtual resources according to the load variation of the cloud application, optimize allocation of the cloud computing resources, realize effective use of the cloud computing resources, and meet the requirements on dynamic scalability of cloud application. In addition, the method can avoid waste of the cloud computing resources, and save the cost for using resources for cloud application users.

In one exemplary aspect, an edge-gateway multipath method includes the step of providing an edge device in a local network communicatively coupled with a cloud-computing service in a cloud-computing network. A set of wide area network (WAN) links connected to the edge device are automatically detected. The WAN links are automatically measured without the need for an external router. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a central configuration point in the cloud-computing network. The method further includes the step of downloading, from the central configuration point, an enterprise-specific configuration data into the edge device. The enterprise-specific configuration data includes the gateway information. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a gateway in the cloud-computing network. The communicatively coupling of the edge device with the gateway includes a multipath (MP) protocol.

A system and associated method for securing sensitive data in a cloud computing environment. A customer system has proprietary data as a record stored in a database. The customer system associates a hashing directive with the record prior to sending the data out to a cloud for computing services. The hashing directive classifies each data field of the record into sensitive and transactional. The hashing directive controls a mode of hashing, either one-way hashing or two-way hashing for each sensitive data field associated with the hashing directive. A cloud receives the record secured according to the hashing directive and process the record to generate a result value for a cloud process result field of the record. The customer system reconstitutes the record the record according to the mode of hashing indicated in the hashing directive.

The invention discloses a layered distributed cloud computing architecture and a service delivery method. The architecture is composed of a core cloud, an edge cloud and a terminal. The core cloud is a cloud computing service center composed of servers with powerful storage and computing capacity; the edge cloud is composed of server nodes distributed in different networks and regions and is connected with the core cloud by backbone network, and the terminal is an entity which uses a cloud computing service provided by the core cloud and edge cloud. The core cloud and the edge cloud work together to provide the cloud computing service for terminal users and uses relevance of data transmitted by the core edge and the terminal to process the data so as to reduce traffic. In the invention, network flow in most of cloud computing is confined to the local network between the edge and the terminal, thus lowering traffic of the backbone network, effectively avoiding the problems of network congestion, high latency and the like in the existing centralized cloud computing mode and improving user experience.

In one exemplary aspect, an edge-gateway multipath method includes the step of providing an edge device in a local network communicatively coupled with a cloud-computing service in a cloud-computing network. A set of wide area network (WAN) links connected to the edge device are automatically detected. The WAN links are automatically measured without the need for an external router. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a central configuration point in the cloud-computing network. The method further includes the step of downloading, from the central configuration point, an enterprise-specific configuration data into the edge device. The enterprise-specific configuration data includes the gateway information. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a gateway in the cloud-computing network. The communicatively coupling of the edge device with the gateway includes a multipath (MP) protocol.

A method and technique for autonomous selection of a Data Center Cluster (DCC) for fulfilling a cloud computing service request, including a technique for grouping data centers (DCs) in a cloud network according to a ranking of eligible DCCs based on selection criteria. In various embodiments, the selection criteria may include a cluster performance metric, a cluster resource equivalence metric, a balance of resource performance metric, a DCC load index, or combination thereof. Other aspects include techniques for computing/determining each of the selection criteria.

The invention discloses a remote wireless farmland monitoring system and method. The remote wireless farmland monitoring system comprises a farmland information acquisition subsystem, an irrigation control subsystem, a wireless remote transmission unit, and a cloud computing server, wherein the farmland information acquisition subsystem comprises multiple sensor nodes for acquiring growth information data of farmland crops; the irrigation control subsystem receives irrigation and fertilization commands from the cloud computing server to perform precise fertilization and irrigation; and the cloud computing server performs crop growth simulation day by day in the whole growing period of the crops, computes daily water demand information and growth nutrition information, and sends irrigation and fertilization commands to the irrigation control subsystem in real time. By virtue of the remote wireless farmland monitoring system and method disclosed by the invention, the effect of optimizing and guiding the irrigation and fertilization during crop plantation by farmers is achieved, and more precise irrigation and fertilization control can also be provided so as to achieve the aims of saving water and fertilizer and improving earnings.

The invention discloses a system for managing cloud computing service, which comprises a cloud computing management platform and a cloud application database, wherein the cloud application database is connected with the cloud computing management platform, and the cloud computing management platform is connected with public clouds or private clouds through a network; and the cloud application database comprises all installation packages for cloud application; and the cloud computing management platform is used for helping customers to realize managing a cloud host in the public clouds or private clouds and cloud application in the cloud host. The cloud computing management system provided by the invention realizes the unified management of multiple public clouds and multiple private clouds through a public cloud management interface and a private cloud management interface, so that great convenience is provided for users.

The invention provides a dish recommendation system based on data mining and cloud computing service. The method comprises the following steps: 1) receiving a recommendation request input by a user; b) judging whether the user selects a restaurant, and if not, recommending at least one restaurant for the user; c) reading a restaurant template according to the selected restaurant or the recommended restaurant, so as to generate at least one dish collocation scheme based on a dish model; d) scoring the generated at least one dish collocation scheme, wherein scoring standards are selected from at least one of special dish matching judgement, user historical behaviour and evaluation judgement, food material repeatability judgement and user collaborative recommendation weighting; e) selecting a scheme with the highest score and recommending the scheme to the user; f) judging whether the user is satisfied with the recommended scheme, and if not, recommending again until the user is satisfied; and g) updating the dish model, the restaurant model and a user model based on the scheme which the user is satisfied with or not.

The invention discloses a cloud computing resource scheduling method based on scheduling object space. According to the method, the concept of scheduling object space is introduced for setting a flexible standard framework, so that a user can explain the requirement on service resource scheduling, namely the user can select required scheduling attribute for optimization, wherein a multi object resource distribution scheduling mechanism can make adaptive resource scheduling decision under the driving of the expandable user scheduling object space. The method can dynamically deploy cloud computing resource according to the requirement of the user on resource scheduling, and realizes the adaptive optimal distribution of the cloud computing resource driven by the user requirement. Moreover, the scheduling strategy can avoid over turning-on of a cloud computing server as much as possible, thereby improving the utility ratio of resources and reducing the cost of a cloud service provider.

An apparatus and a method for multimedia data handling to a web or cloud-computing service are disclosed. A set-top box can generate a pre-encoded stream of digitized data after receiving a raw incoming multimedia signal or after receiving a pre-processed, decoded, decompressed, and/or decrypted incoming multimedia signal from a service provider-specific signal receiver. The set-top box can also generate streams of encoded multimedia data from the pre-encoded stream of digitized data and segmentize the streams of encoded multimedia data into individually-viewable segments for uploading to the web or cloud-computing service, wherein a size of each segment varies based on a current connection bandwidth availability and/or a workload on the set-top box. By automatically segmentizing the streams of encoded multimedia data into individually-viewable segments for the web or cloud-computing service, a user can start viewing the currently-uploading multimedia data faster than a conventional single stream upload.

An apparatus and method for providing a game service in cloud computing environment. A method may be provided for providing a streaming game service using a plurality of cloud computing servers. The method may include receiving user inputs from at least one user equipments, executing and progressing at least one game program in response to the user inputs, capturing audio and video data as progress results of the executed at least one game program, and streaming the captured audio and video data to a respective user equipment.

A cloud computing service to securely process queries on a database. A security device and method of operation are also disclosed. The security device may be provisioned with a private key of a subscriber to the cloud service and may have processing hardware that uses that key, sequestering the key and encryption processing in hardware that others, including operating personnel of the cloud service, cannot readily access. Processing within the security device may decrypt queries received from the subscriber and may encrypt responses for communication over a public network. The device may perform functions on clear text, thereby limiting the amount of clear text data processed on the cloud platform, while limiting bandwidth consumed in communicating with the subscriber. Such processing may include formatting data, including arguments in a query, in a security protocol used by the cloud platform.

The invention provides an ant colony optimization computing resource distribution method based on a cloud computing environment. The computing resource distribution method is based on ant colony optimization and characteristics of the cloud computing environment. The cloud computing resource distribution method comprises the steps of predicting computing quality of potential available nodes, analyzing influence of factors such as network bandwidth occupation, quality of a track, responding time, task cost and reliability on resource distribution according to characteristics of a cloud computing service mode, and then obtaining a set of optimized computing resources by means of the ant colony algorithm. According to the algorithm, shorter responding time and better running quality can be acquired compared with other distribution algorithms which aim at the network on the premise that cloud computing environment requirements are met, and therefore the ant colony optimization computing resource distribution method based on the cloud computing environment is more suitable for the cloud environment.