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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2004
Sameer Akbar Khan, Overland Park, KS (US);
Nasir Mahmood Mirza, Overland Park, KS (US);
Usman Mohammed Naim, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sameer Akbar Khan, Overland Park, KS (US);
Nasir Mahmood Mirza, Overland Park, KS (US);
Usman Mohammed Naim, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining the cost per unit transaction for running an application on a server system is disclosed. The total transaction capacity of a system is determined as well as the total storage capacity during a time period M. The total fixed cost and the total variable cost during the time period are also determined. A total cost per unit transaction is determined from the total transaction capacity plus the total storage capacity divided by the total fixed and variable costs. The resource usage of the system by the application is tracked during the time period M. The cost billed to the application user is the resource usage of the application multiplied by the total cost per unit time for the time period M.