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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2012
Eric Sven-johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Upton, MA (US);
Vikas Garg, Madison, WI (US);
Zaide Edward Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Eric Sven-Johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Upton, MA (US);
Vikas Garg, Madison, WI (US);
Zaide Edward Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is selected for hosting the program. The system monitors the status and performance of each distributed computing server. The system provisions additional servers when traffic levels exceed a predetermined level for a customer's application program and, as traffic demand decreases to a predetermined level, servers can be un-provisioned and returned back to a server pool for later provisioning. The system tries to fill up one server at a time with customer application programs before dispatching new requests to another server. The customer is charged a fee based on the usage of the distributed computing servers.