Patent ID: 7594006
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of updating a demand profile used in a computing utility, comprising: providing a hardware processor for: receiving a demand profile associated with an application that identifies a required resource demand during time slots in a demand cycle; receiving trending specification information used during admission to the computing utility, based upon a collection of observed data as the application uses resources from the computing utility and then modeling changes in the resource demand according to the application's expected change in growth through application of curve fitting methodologies to the observed data collected in light of the application's expected change in growth and generating various statistical measurements associated with the resulting fitted curves used to predict trends in the resource demand wherein the various statistical measurements are selected from a set of statistical measurements including: a mean resource demand, a standard deviation of resource demand, a peak resource demand, a ratio of peak resource demand to mean resource demand and a ratio of minimum resource demand to mean resource demand; and updating the demand profile when indicated in light of trending specification information and resource demand, wherein updating the demand profile further comprises,