Appeal No. 2006-0509 2
Application No. 09/425,088
configured to measure performance of the service implementation, and to modify an
estimated capacity of the service provider based on the measured performance.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. In a system having a client computer system and a service provider computer
system programmed with a service implementation, an apparatus comprising:
a service level agreement manager disposed between the client computer
system and the service implementation, the service level agreement manager
comprising:
an admission controller configured to control admission of the client
computer system to the service implementation using a service level agreement;
a performance measurement module in communication with the
admission controller and configured to:
measure performance of the service implementation, and
modify an estimated capacity of the service provider based on the
measured performance; and
a specification module in communication with the admission controller and
with the performance measurement module.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Aronberg et al. (Aronberg) 6,117,188 Sept. 12, 2000
(filed Apr. 27, 1998)
Somers 6,243,396 June 5, 2001
(filed Apr. 15, 1998)
Tunnicliffe et al. (Tunnicliffe) 6,272,110 Aug. 7, 2001
(filed May 20, 1998)
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