Patent ID: 9197739
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising computer code for: sending, by a system to a user, an offer for a guaranteed quality of service (QoS) for a predetermined service during a predefined period, the guaranteed QoS including a guaranteed stability and availability of a provided event, and the offer including a price for the guaranteed QoS that is set according to: receiving by the system from the user a request for the guaranteed QoS for the predetermined service during the predefined period, in response to the offer; determining, by the system, whether servicing the guaranteed QoS for the user would result in a resource utilization of the system that exceeds a predetermined percentage of a total resource capacity of the system; and providing by the system to the user the guaranteed QoS for the predetermined service during the predefined period, when it is determined by the system that servicing the guaranteed QoS for the user would not result in the resource utilization of the system that exceeds the predetermined percentage of the total resource capacity of the system.