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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2006
Paul T. Barnett, Plano, TX (US);
Timothy E. Wise, Austin, TX (US);
Allan Drew Clarke, Austin, TX (US);
Richard Gimarc, Austin, TX (US);
James Reynolds, Mt. Desert, ME (US);
Amy Spellmann, Johnson City, TX (US);
Paul T. Barnett, Plano, TX (US);
Timothy E. Wise, Austin, TX (US);
Allan Drew Clarke, Austin, TX (US);
Richard Gimarc, Austin, TX (US);
James Reynolds, Mt. Desert, ME (US);
Amy Spellmann, Johnson City, TX (US);
HyperFormix, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method for preparing a discrete event simulation model of a production network including a client and a plurality of servers on a plurality of network tiers connected by a network comprising the steps of executing a business function from the client on the production network, gathering resource data from the plurality of servers, normalizing the resource data, calculating a consumption of resources used by the plurality of servers, estimating a transaction cost associated with the consumption of resources and building a discrete event simulation model from the transaction cost.