Billing adjustment for power on demand

Details Billing adjustment for power on demand Billing adjustment for power on demand

2004-04-14

2009-02-17

Follansbee, John (Department: 2151)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing

Network resources access controlling

C370S231000, C370S235000, C705S001100, C705S400000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07493401

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus, program product and method for determining a cost for using a standby resource that accounts for the cause for the resource's usage. A standby resource, such as a processor, is activated in response to a resource requirement. The cause of the resource requirement is automatically determined. The result of that automatic determination is used to determine a charge indicator for using the standby resource. For instance, performance code associated with a failure may be associated with a charge indicator. A user may later be billed according to the determined charge indicator, i.e., according to their actual use of the standby resource and/or their usage status.

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patent: 2002/0166117 (2002-11-01), Abrams et al.
patent: 2003/0172145 (2003-09-01), Nguyen
patent: 2004/0030575 (2004-02-01), Fackre et al.
patent: 2005/0228856 (2005-10-01), Swildens et al.

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