APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CO-LOCATION AND OFFLOADING OF WEB SITE TRAFFIC BASED ON TRAFFIC PATTERN RECOGNITION
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for identifying traffic patterns to web sites based on templates that characterize the arrival of traffic to the web sites are provided. Based on these templates, determinations are made as to which web sites should be co-located so as to optimize resource allocation. Specifically, web sites whose templates are complimentary, i.e. a first web site having a peak in arrival traffic at time t1 and a second web site that has a trough in arrival traffic at time t1, are designated as being candidates for co-location. In addition, the present invention uses the templates identified for the traffic patterns of web sites to determine thresholds for offloading traffic to other servers. These thresholds include a first threshold at which offloading should be performed, a second threshold that takes into consideration the lead time needed to begin offloading, and a third threshold that takes into consideration a lag time needed to stop all offloading of traffic to the other servers.
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49 Claims
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1-37. -37. (canceled)
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38. A computer program product in a recordable type medium for allocating resources to a plurality of web sites, wherein the computer program product is executed by a computer, comprising:
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first instructions for identifying a traffic pattern for each of the plurality of web sites;
second instructions for identifying at least one of a plurality of templates for each of the plurality of web sites based on the traffic pattern; and
third instructions for allocating resources to at least one of the plurality of web sites based on the at least one of the plurality of templates identified for the at least one of the plurality of web sites. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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