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AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsCarla DI CAIRANO - GILFEDDER, Kjeld JENSEN, Gilbert OWUSU
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A data management process determines, from user-implemented provisional reservations (400) for data processing resources, a projected total capacity requirement for each said data processing resource, by maintaining a record (9, 90, 91) recording previous such reservations made by each user and comparing each reservations with records (87, 88, 89) of the actual resources used, to provide an estimate of resources required to meet the projected capacity requirement, and to provide data for a demand management processor (2), which control associated configurable data processing equipment (1) to provide the resources required to meet the estimated capacity required. The process takes account of over- and under-ordering of capacity by comparing each reservation (400) with the use actually made (600), and includes a record (10) of ad-hoc (unreserved) usage.
A data management process which determines, from user-implemented provisional reservations for data processing resources, a projected total capacity requirement for each said data processing resource within the network required for the network to meet the aggregate requirements of the users, by recording previous provisional reservations made by each user and comparing each reservation with the actual capacity used by the user making the reservation, to provide an estimate of resources required to meet a projected capacity required to meet the provisional requests, and to control associated configurable data processing equipment to provide the resources required to meet the estimated capacity required.
A data management network monitoring process according to c1aim 1, wherein the process allocates resources and configures them to specific purposes to meet the estimated capacity required.
Apparatus for monitoring the operation of a data management network, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.