Patent ID: 9742684
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, wherein the program, when executed by the at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to at least: obtain, a plurality of requests, individual ones of the plurality of requests being associated with one of a plurality of clients and relating to a predicted use of a service; generate a plurality of resource requirements, individual ones of the plurality of resource requirements corresponding to one of the requests and associated with a time period; generate a service usage model as a function of the resource requirements and the time period; generate a resource acquisition as a function of a pool of available resources and an integral of the service usage model at a peak usage period; calculate a projected usage associated with one of the requests as a function of the associated one of the requests and the time period; calculate an actual usage associated with one of the requests; generate a report embodying a divergence between the projected usage and the actual usage; and wherein the requests comprise a number of transactions per second, a start date, and a growth function, the service is associated with a resource allocation function, and the resource requirements are generated as a function of the corresponding one of the requests and the resource allocation function.