Web services requests throttling

An article of manufacture, comprising:

• at least one machine readable storage medium;
• and programming instructions embodied in said at least one medium for execution by one or more computers, wherein the programming configures said one or more computers to be capable of performing functions for web services throttling in a web application server environment communicating over a network to a mobile station, the functions comprising:
• receiving, from a web services client, a request containing an account ID related to the web services client;
• reading, by an ID reader resident on one of the plurality of web services servers, the account ID from the received request;
• incrementing a value in a counter, the counter resident on the one of the plurality of web services servers, wherein the value is related to the account ID;
• communicating with the remaining plurality of web services servers to increment the value related to the account ID in a plurality of counters, each counter of the plurality being resident on one of the remaining plurality of web services servers;
• and
• comparing, on the plurality of web services servers, the value related to the account ID to a throttling limit value.

An article of manufacture, comprising:

• at least one machine readable storage medium;
• and
• programming instructions embodied in said at least one medium for execution by one or more computers, wherein the programming configures said one or more computers to be capable of performing web server throttling functions, and the programming comprises:
• one or more scripts which, each time they are periodically started, implement, one or more of the following programs:
• setting a throttling limit value in a plurality of counters resident on a plurality of web services servers grouped in a server farm, wherein the throttling limit is a number of requests per time period;
• receiving, at one of the plurality of web services servers over a network, a request from a web services client, wherein the request comprises an account ID related to the web services client;
• incrementing a value in a counter resident on the one of the plurality of web services servers, wherein the counter value is related to the account ID;
• instructing a remainder of the plurality of web services servers to increment a plurality of counters, each resident on the remainder of the plurality of web services servers;
• comparing, on the plurality of web services servers, the counter value to the throttling limit value;
• processing the request, on the one of the plurality of web services servers, if the value is less than or equal to the throttling limit value;
• and
• not immediately processing the request, on the one of the plurality of web services servers, if the value is greater than the throttling limit value, further implementing at least one of:
• sending an error message to the web services client;
• and
• delaying processing the request until the value is less than or equal to the throttling limit value;
• and
• setting the counter value to zero in the plurality of counters resident on the plurality of web services servers, once the time period is exceeded.