Patent ID: 9195564
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing advanced notification of workload, the method comprising: identifying a reference to a second website provided to a first website for posting by the first website; analyzing, via a processor, information associated with the first website to determine whether the reference to the second website will cause an increase in workload to the second website; responsive to determining the reference to the second website will cause the increase in workload to the second website, communicating an alert to the second website or an entity that manages the second website, the alert indicating that the increase in workload to the second website will occur; posting in the first website the reference to the second website as accessible to users in a first geographic region after a first time delay has expired since the alert is communicated to the second website or the entity that manages the second website; and posting in the first website the reference to the second website as accessible to users in a second geographic region after a second time delay has expired since the alert is communicated to the second website or the entity that manages the second website.