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Managing the performance of an electronic device

  • US 8,041,808 B1
  • Filed: 03/30/2007
  • Issued: 10/18/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • using one or more processors to perform the following;

    collecting and analyzing historic resource utilization data relating to a plurality of servers, the resource utilization data representing a load placed on a set of finite resources over a predefined period of time;

    generating an exponential growth model for each server based on analysis of the historic resource utilization data;

    generating a linear growth model for a particular server by transforming the exponential growth model into the linear growth model when the historic resource utilization data generates a slope of the exponential growth model that is twice a slope of an end of the most recent historic resource utilization data in the exponential growth model;

    creating a resource utilization forecast for each server from the exponential growth model or the linear growth model;

    receiving an assignment of a threshold value for the resource utilization forecast of each server;

    identifying an earliest forecasted date the threshold value is exceeded for the particular server based on the resource utilization forecast and the threshold value of each server; and

    sorting a number of resource utilization forecasts by the identified date for each of the number of resource utilization forecasts;

    wherein the number of resource utilization forecasts includes linear and exponential growth models.

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