Cellular Resource Sharing Platform for Virtual Data Center
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for flexible cloud computing resources, particularly for edge technologies like IoT and AI, requires platforms that can efficiently manage and deliver lightweight, on-demand computational resources, which existing systems struggle to provide without significant infrastructure investments.
Innovation Solution
A cellular-based resource sharing platform that leverages excess compute resources from mobile devices in a cellular network, utilizing a business support system to monetize unused IT resources by creating a virtual data center, which packages and resells these resources as lightweight virtual machine units through a cloud-based model.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If telecom providers invest in data centers to deliver cloud services, then service reliability and capacity are improved, but infrastructure investment cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines underutilized compute resources from multiple mobile devices into a unified virtual data center. By merging idle CPU cycles, memory, and storage across numerous user devices, the system creates a pooled resource pool that can reliably deliver cloud services without requiring traditional data center infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
Mobile devices serve dual functions: their primary user-facing role and a secondary role as cloud computing resources. The same device that users operate for personal use also contributes its idle computational capacity to the virtual data center, enabling multi-functionality and eliminating the need for dedicated infrastructure.
2Productivity
If traditional cloud infrastructure is deployed to meet computational demands, then service capacity is improved, but device complexity and deployment difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically discovers, monitors, and manages compute resources from mobile devices without manual intervention. The platform self-configures the virtual data center by detecting available resources, dynamically allocating capacity, and managing resource provisioning, thereby eliminating complex deployment procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual data center dynamically adapts to changing resource availability from mobile devices. As devices are added, removed, or have varying idle capacity, the system automatically reconfigures resource allocation and service delivery, providing flexible scalability without rigid infrastructure planning.
3Quantity of substance
If excess compute resources from mobile devices are utilized, then infrastructure cost is reduced, but resource availability and stability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent aggregates compute resources from a large number of mobile devices to create a pooled virtual data center. By combining many individual, potentially unstable resources into a collective pool, the system achieves stable and reliable resource availability through diversity and redundancy, offsetting the inherent instability of individual device contributions.
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AI summary
A system, method and program product for implementing a cellular resource sharing support system. A system is disclosed that includes: a behavior analysis system that collects usage data from a set of mobile devices in a cellular network; a subscription manager that computationally generates offers to mobile device owners to avail excess compute resources of the mobile devices to a resource sharing services system; a device manager that tracks the real-time availability and usage of participating mobile devices that are associated with mobile device owners that have accepted offers to avail excess compute resources; and an account manager that calculates a compensation for participating mobile devices.