Patent ID: 6968381

Claim:
A computerized method for indicating availability of one or a multitude of application-servers, comprising: said method comprising a first step of inserting into a central availability-database a first-data-element comprising a notification-period, said notification-period defining an upper time limit for a repetition period of an availability-signal being repeated as long as said application-server is available; said method comprising a second step of inserting into said central availability-database a second-data-element comprising for each availability-signal its corresponding time stamp as availability-time; whereby, the difference of the current-time and a recent availability-time compared to said notification-period is representing a measure of availability of said application-server; and said method comprising a third step of updating said notification-period depending on the amount of workload of said application-server either by increasing said notification-period, if said amount of the workload increases, or by decreasing said notification-period, if said amount of the workload decreases.