Data service provisioning, metering, and load-balancing via service units
US10817506B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 29, 2018 |
| Grant date | Oct 27, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 17, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/1029
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Workloads are often performed by a server set according to a service level agreement, and are often provisioned and load-balanced by dedicating selected computational resources (e.g., servers and bandwidth) for application to the workload. However, resource-based provisioning may not accurately reflect the computational resource expenditure of the workload, leading to overprovisioning or underprovisioning of servers for the workload. Instead, the workload may be evaluated according to a service unit as a measurement of a volume of computational resources consumed by a workload unit, including performance dimensions specified in the service level agreement. The service level agreement may indicate a service unit rate for the workload. The workload may therefore be allocated to a subset of servers in portions according to a service unit rate, where the sum of the service unit rates for the portions allocated to the servers satisfies the service unit rate specified in the service level agreement.
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