Patent ID: 9455887
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system for evaluating performance of a service, the system comprising: one or more computing systems configured to provide a control and reporting tier configured to receive a request by way of a load generating Web service application programming interface (API) to evaluate the performance of the service and, in response to receiving the request, to generate a load-generating job based upon the request and to provide the load-generating job to a load-generating tier; and one or more other computing systems configured to provide the load-generating tier, the load-generating tier comprising one or more load-generating instances configured to receive the load-generating job and to generate requests to the service based upon the load-generating job, wherein each of the load-generating instances is further configured to determine if at least a desired number of requests per time period are being submitted to the service and, if at least the desired number of requests per time period are not being submitted to the service, to enable other of the load-generating instances to also submit requests to the service.