Method, system, and program products for distributed content throttling in a computing environment
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKaren Appleby, Liana Liyow Fong, German Sergio Goldszmidt, Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar, Donald Philip Pazel
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Abstract
A method (and structure) in a computer network of controlling the admittance of requests to at least one processing component, includes differentiating the type of received requests based on the message content in each request. Each request is admitted only if the differentiated type meets at least one criterion for admission.
Claims27
A method in a computer network of controlling an admittance of requests to at least one processing component, said method comprising:
- evaluating an amount of traffic in said network;
- determining whether said amount exceeds a preset threshold;
- if said amount exceeds said threshold, differentiating a type of said requests based on a content in each said request;
- and
- admitting said each request only if said differentiated type meets at least one criterion for admission.
A request throttler in a computer network that controls an admittance of requests to at least one processing component, said request throttler comprising:
- a threshold detector to determine whether an activity on said computer network exceeds a preset amount;
- a differentiator to evaluate a message content of each of said requests, if said preset amount is exceeded;
- and
- a switch to admit said each request only if said evaluation passes at least one criterion for admission.
A computer-readable medium containing a set of computer-readable instructions for a method in a computer network of controlling an admittance of requests to at least one processing component, said method comprising:
- determining whether an amount of network traffic exceeds a preset amount;
- if said preset amount is exceeded, differentiating a type of said requests based on a content in each said request;
- and
- admitting said each request only if said differentiated type meets at least one criterion for admission.
A computer network comprising:
- a request throttler for controlling an admittance of requests to at least one processing component and comprising a differentiator to evaluate a message content of each of said requests and a switch to admit said each request only if said evaluation passes at least one criterion for admission, wherein said request throttler is invoked only if an amount of traffic on said computer network exceeds a preset amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.