Virus enabled application metering in distributed and on-demand computing environments
There is provided a method, system and apparatus for viral based application metering. In a method of the invention, an application can be infected with viral logic programmed to transmit application metrics to a central meter over a data communications network. For instance, the infecting step can...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English |
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28.12.2006
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Summary: | There is provided a method, system and apparatus for viral based application metering. In a method of the invention, an application can be infected with viral logic programmed to transmit application metrics to a central meter over a data communications network. For instance, the infecting step can include infecting an application with viral logic programmed to transmit periodic heartbeats to a central meter over a data communications network. Also, the infecting step can include infecting an application with viral logic programmed to report a starting of the application to a central meter over a data communications network. |
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Bibliography: | Application Number: US20050169039 |