Abstract: A service may be any device hardware and/or software, or portion thereof, that can be identified by a provider for sharing with or selling to a consumer device in accord with a negotiation for its sharing or selling. The consumer may be any machine capable of consuming or providing a service; artificial intelligence may facilitate the sharing/selling. A witness may: track negotiations for sharing/selling, authenticate consumers/providers, and facilitate financial payments between consumers/providers. Financial charges may be micro-charges, e.g., very low cost. A consumer/provider may have an associated reputation that may affect the negotiation, and a party may be transitory and/or in an environment risking interruption of the sharing or selling, and these characteristics may affect the negotiation. The witness may electively cover losses to the consumer/provider, particularly when the cost of the transaction is a micro-charge.

Abstract: A service may be any device hardware and/or software, or portion thereof, that can be identified by a provider for sharing with or selling to a consumer device in accord with a negotiation for its sharing or selling. The consumer may be any machine capable of consuming or providing a service; artificial intelligence may facilitate the sharing/selling. A witness may: track negotiations for sharing/selling, authenticate consumers/providers, and facilitate financial payments between consumers/providers. Financial charges may be micro-charges, e.g., very low cost. A consumer/provider may have an associated reputation that may affect the negotiation, and a party may be transitory and/or in an environment risking interruption of the sharing or selling, and these characteristics may affect the negotiation. The witness may electively cover losses to the consumer/provider, particularly when the cost of the transaction is a micro-charge.

Abstract: A device, system, and method for maintaining session persistency between one or more clients and one or more data servers includes providing a persistent session between the client(s) and data server(s) as a function of a load balancer hint header included in a message received by the load balancer from the client(s). The client(s) modifies the message, which may be generated by an application, to include the load balancer hint header that identifies a location, within the message, of a session ID that identifies the particular persistent session. The load balancer identifies the data server(s) from a session-server table based on the session ID and transmits the message to the identified data server(s). The load balancer may communicate with other load balancers, if the load balancer is unable to locate the corresponding data server, to determine the location of the corresponding data server(s).

Abstract: A device, system, and method for maintaining session persistency between one or more clients and one or more data servers includes providing a persistent session between the client(s) and data server(s) as a function of a load balancer hint header included in a message received by the load balancer from the client(s). The client(s) modifies the message, which may be generated by an application, to include the load balancer hint header that identifies a location, within the message, of a session ID that identifies the particular persistent session. The load balancer identifies the data server(s) from a session-server table based on the session ID and transmits the message to the identified data server(s). The load balancer may communicate with other load balancers, if the load balancer is unable to locate the corresponding data server, to determine the location of the corresponding data server(s).

Abstract: A service may be any device hardware and/or software, or portion thereof, that can be identified by a provider for sharing with or selling to a consumer device in accord with a negotiation for its sharing or selling. The consumer may be any machine capable of consuming or providing a service; artificial intelligence may facilitate the sharing/selling. A witness may: track negotiations for sharing/selling, authenticate consumers/providers, and facilitate financial payments between consumers/providers. Financial charges may be micro-charges, e.g., very low cost. A consumer/provider may have an associated reputation that may affect the negotiation, and a party may be transitory and/or in an environment risking interruption of the sharing or selling, and these characteristics may affect the negotiation. The witness may electively cover losses to the consumer/provider, particularly when the cost of the transaction is a micro-charge.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for initializing a common information model (CIM) broker and a SLP service agent of a system in a pre-boot environment, transmitting a multicast request and receiving a unicast advertisement from a directory agent, registering a web-based enterprise management (WBEM) service to the directory agent, and configuring, provisioning, and/or performing asset inventory of the system in the pre-boot environment responsive to information from a resource manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for initializing a common information model (CIM) broker and a SLP service agent of a system in a pre-boot environment, transmitting a multicast request and receiving a unicast advertisement from a directory agent, registering a web-based enterprise management (WBEM) service to the directory agent, and configuring, provisioning, and/or performing asset inventory of the system in the pre-boot environment responsive to information from a resource manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for initializing a common information model (CIM) broker and a SLP service agent of a system in a pre-boot environment, transmitting a multicast request and receiving a unicast advertisement from a directory agent, registering a web-based enterprise management (WBEM) service to the directory agent, and configuring, provisioning, and/or performing asset inventory of the system in the pre-boot environment responsive to information from a resource manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for initializing a common information model (CIM) broker and a SLP service agent of a system in a pre-boot environment, transmitting a multicast request and receiving a unicast advertisement from a directory agent, registering a web-based enterprise management (WBEM) service to the directory agent, and configuring, provisioning, and/or performing asset inventory of the system in the pre-boot environment responsive to information from a resource manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed.