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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2002
Robert C. Lehr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arif Sardar, Hayward, CA (US);
Matthew Lane, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Winthrop Reis, San Mateo, CA (US);
Cynthia Alderson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick Allaire, Fremont, CA (US);
Richard Birrell, Gilroy, CA (US);
Christopher K Buss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Paula Zimon Clawson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Graf, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Arthur F. Green, Los Altos, CA (US);
Monica Lasgoity, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Susan C. Neidhart, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony Keith Towles, Garland, TX (US);
Carol Uno, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert C. Lehr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arif Sardar, Hayward, CA (US);
Matthew Lane, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Winthrop Reis, San Mateo, CA (US);
Cynthia Alderson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick Allaire, Fremont, CA (US);
Richard Birrell, Gilroy, CA (US);
Christopher K Buss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Paula Zimon Clawson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Graf, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Arthur F. Green, Los Altos, CA (US);
Monica Lasgoity, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Susan C. Neidhart, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony Keith Towles, Garland, TX (US);
Carol Uno, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A hardware pay-per-use system and corresponding method allow computer system operators to tailor their hardware utilization to more closely match changing customer demands. The hardware pay-per-use system includes one or more hardware products and a metering mechanism coupled to at least one of the hardware products. The metering mechanism includes a hardware device separate from the hardware products. The metering mechanism acquires metrics data from the hardware products, the metrics data related to an operation at the hardware products. The metering mechanism determines data to report on the operation of the hardware products. A usage repository coupled to the metering mechanism receives the determined data and generates usage reports related to the operation of the hardware products.