Patent ID: 9282053
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of partitioning resources comprising: specifying a plurality of resource limit ranges for a plurality of tenants of a system, each of said plurality of resource limit ranges having a lower bound and an upper bound; determining, using a processor, a plurality of current resource limits, each of said plurality of current resource limits indicating a current resource limit for one of said plurality of tenants, wherein said each current resource limit for said one tenant is a value included in one of the plurality of resource limit ranges specified for said one tenant, and wherein said plurality of current resource limits are dynamically determined in accordance with a current state of the system; enforcing, using a processor, the plurality of current resource limits for the plurality of tenants thereby affecting resources of the system utilized by the plurality of tenants; determining, using a processor, whether the current state of the system is a compliance state; and responsive to determining the current state of the system is the compliance state, allowing the plurality of current resource limits each having an associated one of the plurality of resource limit ranges to increase up to the upper bound of the associated one of the plurality of resource limit ranges.