IP Library Granted Patent US 11,665,107
Granted Patent B2
US 11,665,107 · App. 17/869,738 · Granted May 30, 2023

On-demand resource provisioning

Inventors: Ben Laplanche (London, GB); Alex Ley (London, GB); Dmitriy Kalinin (San Francisco, CA); Craig Furman (London, GB); Jatin Naik (London, GB); Tom Anderson (London, GB); Maria Ntalla (Colchester, GB); James Hill (London, GB); Onsi Joe Fakhouri (Denver, CO); Tammer Saleh (Woodland, CA)
Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.
H04L47/803G06F9/45558G06F9/5072G06F9/5077G06F2009/4557G06F2009/45595
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,665,107
App. No.
17/869,738
Granted
May 30, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for on-demand resource provisioning for service instances. An on-demand service broker provisions IaaS resources at service instance creating time. The service broker provides a catalog listing one or more service plans, each service plan corresponds to a set of available resources. A user device selects a respective service plan that matches specific needs of an application that consumes the resources. The service broker generates a deployment manifest based on the selected service plan. The service broker then submits the deployment manifest to a deployment system. The deployment system provisions the resources to the service instance according to the manifest generated by the service broker.

Claims (57)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a cloud computing platform for deploying service instances, one or more requests to delete a respective service instance of a particular service, the service instance having been previously deployed on the cloud computing platform;

for each request of the one or more requests to delete a respective service instance:

in response to receiving the request to delete the respective service instance, providing, by the cloud computing platform to an on-demand service broker, a remove service request;

in response to receiving the remove service request, providing, by the on-demand service broker, a delete deployment request to a deployment system;

entering an inquiry loop comprising providing, by the cloud computing platform, an inquiry to the on-demand service broker for a last operation;

in response to the inquiry, the on-demand service broker:

submits a get task state request to the deployment system; and

returns a status to the cloud computing platform based on a response received from the deployment system;

in response to receiving an in-progress status from the on-demand service broker, sending a next inquiry to the on-demand service broker according to the inquiry loop; and

in response to receiving a status indicating completion of deletion of the respective service instance, ending the inquiry loop.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein in response to providing the delete deployment request to the deployment system, the on-demand service broker receives an acknowledgement, and wherein in response to the acknowledgement from the deployment system, the on-demand service broker provides a notification to the cloud computing platform indicating that the deployment system is handling the request to delete the respective service instance.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving the one or more requests to delete the respective service instance from a delete errand of one or more delete errands managed by a broker errands module of the on-demand service broker,

wherein the delete errand receives a request from a user device to delete multiple service instances.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the delete errand corresponds to a script that executes at a beginning, an end, or both, of a service instance's availability time.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the delete errand, in response to the request from the user device, enters a loop that provides respective requests to delete the multiple service instances to the cloud computing platform.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the cloud computing platform provides a user interface to the user device for preforming on-demand service provisioning for service instances deployed on the cloud computing platform.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the remove service request to the on-demand service broker comprises providing one or more unbind requests for respective bindings to the on-demand service broker.

8. A system comprising one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a cloud computing platform for deploying service instances, one or more requests to delete a respective service instance of a particular service, the service instance having been previously deployed on the cloud computing platform;

for each request of the one or more requests to delete a respective service instance:

in response to receiving the request to delete the respective service instance, providing, by the cloud computing platform to an on-demand service broker, a remove service request;

in response to receiving the remove service request, providing, by the on-demand service broker, a delete deployment request to a deployment system;

entering an inquiry loop comprising providing, by the cloud computing platform, an inquiry to the on-demand service broker for a last operation;

in response to the inquiry, the on-demand service broker:

submits a get task state request to the deployment system; and

returns a status to the cloud computing platform based on a response received from the deployment system;

in response to receiving an in-progress status from the on-demand service broker, sending a next inquiry to the on-demand service broker according to the inquiry loop; and

in response to receiving a status indicating completion of deletion of the respective service instance, ending the inquiry loop.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein in response to providing the delete deployment request to the deployment system, the on-demand service broker receives an acknowledgement, and wherein in response to the acknowledgement from the deployment system, the on-demand service broker provides a notification to the cloud computing platform indicating that the deployment system is handling the request to delete the respective service instance.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the one or more requests to delete the respective service instance from a delete errand of one or more delete errands managed by a broker errands module of the on-demand service broker,

wherein the delete errand receives a request from a user device to delete multiple service instances.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the delete errand corresponds to a script that executes at a beginning, an end, or both, of a service instance's availability time.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the delete errand, in response to the request from the user device, enters a loop that provides respective requests to delete the multiple service instances to the cloud computing platform.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the cloud computing platform provides a user interface to the user device for preforming on-demand service provisioning for service instances deployed on the cloud computing platform.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein providing the remove service request to the on-demand service broker comprises providing one or more unbind requests for respective bindings to the on-demand service broker.

15. One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a cloud computing platform for deploying service instances, one or more requests to delete a respective service instance of a particular service, the service instance having been previously deployed on the cloud computing platform;

for each request of the one or more requests to delete a respective service instance:

in response to receiving the request to delete the respective service instance, providing, by the cloud computing platform to an on-demand service broker, a remove service request;

in response to receiving the remove service request, providing, by the on-demand service broker, a delete deployment request to a deployment system;

entering an inquiry loop comprising providing, by the cloud computing platform, an inquiry to the on-demand service broker for a last operation;

in response to the inquiry, the on-demand service broker:

submits a get task state request to the deployment system; and

returns a status to the cloud computing platform based on a response received from the deployment system;

in response to receiving an in-progress status from the on-demand service broker, sending a next inquiry to the on-demand service broker according to the inquiry loop; and

in response to receiving a status indicating completion of deletion of the respective service instance, ending the inquiry loop.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 15 , wherein in response to providing the delete deployment request to the deployment system, the on-demand service broker receives an acknowledgement, and wherein in response to the acknowledgement from the deployment system, the on-demand service broker provides a notification to the cloud computing platform indicating that the deployment system is handling the request to delete the respective service instance.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the one or more requests to delete the respective service instance from a delete errand of one or more delete errands managed by a broker errands module of the on-demand service broker,

wherein the delete errand receives a request from a user device to delete multiple service instances.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 17 , wherein the delete errand corresponds to a script that executes at a beginning, an end, or both, of a service instance's availability time.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 17 , wherein the delete errand, in response to the request from the user device, enters a loop that provides respective requests to delete the multiple service instances to the cloud computing platform.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 17 , wherein the cloud computing platform provides a user interface to the user device for preforming on-demand service provisioning for service instances deployed on the cloud computing platform.

21. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 15 , wherein providing the remove service request to the on-demand service broker comprises providing one or more unbind requests for respective bindings to the on-demand service broker.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded May 20, 2026
From: PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC.
To: VMWARE LLC
Reel/Frame 075614/0184 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2023
From: LAPLANCHE, BEN; LEY, ALEX; KALININ, DMITRIY; FURMAN, CRAIG; NAIK, JATIN; ANDERSON, TOM; NTALLA, MARIA; HILL, JAMES; FAKHOURI, ONSI JOE; SALEH, TAMMER
To: PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC.
Reel/Frame 063056/0820 →
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