Method for allowing distributed running of an application and related device and inference engine

摘要

Method for allowing distributed running of an application (100) between a device (102) and a server (103) connected via a network (104). The method comprises the following steps carried out by the device: obtaining a device profile (108) including resource capacity characteristics of said device; obtaining an application profile (107) including resource consumption characteristics of said application; obtaining device metrics (114) relating to real-time resource usage with respect to said device; obtaining offload rules (109) defining conditions under which an application is to be run at least in part on a server and/or on a device, the conditions involving device resource capacity, application resource consumption and device real-time resource usage; making a decision by means of an inference engine (113) to run said application at least in part on said server and/or on said device, by evaluating the offload rules applied to said device profile, application profile and device metrics.