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System and method for enforcing communications bandwidth based service level agreements to plurality of customers hosted on a clustered web server

  • US 6,842,783 B1
  • Filed: 02/18/2000
  • Issued: 01/11/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of controlling and guaranteeing a service level agreement (SLA) based on a communications outbound link bandwidth usage to a plurality of customers having electronic business activity hosted by at least one server as a server farm, said method comprising:

  • a) monitoring said outbound communications bandwidth usage by each customer traffic to determine a level of service being provided to each customer with respect to the agreed service level agreement it each service cycle time per unit of time, b) controlling a flow of incoming requests to each customer business activity application so as to guarantee a level of service previously agreed to for one or more said customers by at least one of queuing and by selectively dropping requests to a business activity application for one or more said customers in a manner that maintains the agreed service levels, wherein said controlling controls aid guarantees each outbound link usage based service level agreement by controlling the flow of incoming requests to a server or group of servers.

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