Patent ID: 7613804
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium that facilitates determining a state of a networked system, comprising: a component that obtains system data corresponding to a system component that resides on a first networked system and to a system component that resides on a second network system, the second networked system is external to the first networked system; and an aggregator that aggregates the system data corresponding to the first networked system and the second networked system in accordance with predetermined rules, analyzes at least a subset of the system data and generates an output comprising hidden information obtained via data mining that identifies trends occurring across the first and second networked systems and corresponding to respective states of a subset of components of the first and second networked systems, the output utilized to automatically limit utilization of at least one aspect of the first or second networked system according to a defined limit on aggregate utilization of resources of at least one such system.