US 7,464,163 B1
Service provisioning via attribute-based subscription
David F. Bantz, Chappaqua, N.Y. (US); Sunil K. Sreenivasan, Mount Kisco, N.Y. (US); and Yosef Teitz, Hashmonain (Israel)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/626,430.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/16 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—226  [370/259] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for service provisioning a customer with at least one software application from a service provider, comprising steps of:
establishing a set of attributes of a service provision;
receiving selections from said set of attributes, the selections defining a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the service provider, wherein the SLA comprises a plurality of constraints;
provisioning a service for at least one client computer of the customer in accordance with constraints imposed by the SLA by allocating at least some required data processing resources for the service to at least one of the service provider, the customer, to another service provider, or to a data processing site that offers data processing capacity for use; and
re-provisioning the customer, within the constraints imposed by the SLA, by re-allocating at least some of the required data processing resources for the service to the resources of the customer.