Distributed metering and monitoring system
US9251481B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2011 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 27, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/505
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The distributed metering and monitoring service (DMMS) system provides a way to gather and maintain metrics data which remains distributed, until requested. The DMMS system uses messaging queues to scale the number of servers that may be monitored and metered to a hyperscale of greater than 10,000 servers. The DMMS system determines how many servers (nodes) to assign to a cluster, and uses a metric aggregator to collect and store metrics data for the nodes. The DMMS system creates message queues for the instances, injects instance identifiers into the cluster state data and metrics data, listens for request messages for metering information for instances, retrieves the metrics data for users identified by the instance identifiers stored locally at the nodes, and calculates the metering information for the instance.
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