Method and apparatus for managing hardware and software components
CA 2498059 A1 · Owner: Pass, Norman J. · Inventors: White, Steve Richard; Pass, Norman J.; Kephart, Jeffrey Owen
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A method, computer program product, and data processing system for constructing a self-managing distributed computing System comprised of "autonomic elements" is disclosed. An autonomic element provides a set of services, and may provide them to other autonomic elements. Relationships between autonomic elements include the providing and consuming of such services. These relationships are "late bound," in the sense that they can be made during the operation of the system rather than when parts of the system are implemented or deployed. They are dynamic in the sense that relationships , can begin end, and change over time. They are negotiated in the sense that , they are arrived at by …
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- Filed August 13, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 13, 2023.
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