Patent ID: 8566439

Claim:
A method comprising: monitoring utilization metrics of a plurality of network resources; determining whether the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources is above a first threshold; receiving a service request for a network resource from a requesting entity, wherein the network resource is one of the plurality of the network resources; aggregating a first revenue generated by the requesting entity with a second revenue generated by other requesting entities homogenous to the requesting entity, the other requesting entities homogenous to the requesting entity to perform the same task as the requesting entity; determining an aggregated revenue-to-network-resource-utilization ratio based on the first revenue generated by the requesting entity, the second revenue generated by the other requesting entities homogeneous to the requesting entity, and a network resource utilization for the requesting entity and the other requesting entities homogeneous to the requesting entity; and filtering a response to the service request when the aggregated revenue-to-network-resource-utilization ratio is below a second threshold unless utilization of the plurality of the network resources drops below the first threshold, the filtering including blocking the service request on a predetermined percentage of the network resources.