US 12,248,819 B2
Edge utility system with distributed ledger verification for dynamic aggregation of edge resources
Amy N. Seibel, Newton, MA (US); and Victor Fong, Melrose, MA (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/682,323.
Prior Publication US 2023/0273838 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/5077 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processing device comprising a hardware processor and a memory, the hardware processor being coupled to the memory;
the at least one processing device being configured, via the hardware processor and the memory, to perform operations comprising:
to aggregate edge resources of a plurality of edge computing sites of an edge utility system, the aggregated edge resources including edge resources provided by at least one user for utilization by one or more other users;
to utilize one or more portions of the aggregated edge resources to execute one or more workloads of the one or more other users;
to meter the utilization of the one or more portions of the aggregated edge resources in conjunction with the execution of the one or more workloads; and
to commit information characterizing at least the metered utilization of the aggregated edge resources to a distributed ledger.