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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Main Authors POLAN MICHAEL G, MADDURI HARI H
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.12.2006
Subjects
ALARM SYSTEMS
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
ORDER TELEGRAPHS
PHYSICS
SIGNALLING
SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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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.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20050169039