Resource usage metering of network services

US7707080B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Vikas Agarwal · Noida, IN
• Neeran Karnik · Pune, IN
• Arun Kumar · New Delhi, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 2003
• Grant date: Apr 27, 2010
• Expiry date: May 29, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Process accounting information is recorded, together with service request logs written by e-service applications. These two sets of information are aggregated and correlated, to generate usage metrics relating to resource usage for individual service requests. Such per-request information can be used as a basis for charging users making such requests. Services requests often simultaneously consume computing resources, in which case resource usage is proportionally divided between such simultaneous service requests.