公开(公告)号：US20080086395A1

公开(公告)日：2008-04-10

申请号：US11539225

申请日：2006-10-06

申请人： LARRY B. BRENNER ,  Michael S. Floyd ,  Christopher Francois ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Freeman L. Rawson ,  Randal C. Swanberg

发明人： LARRY B. BRENNER ,  Michael S. Floyd ,  Christopher Francois ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Freeman L. Rawson ,  Randal C. Swanberg

IPC分类号： G07F19/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/04

摘要： The present invention thus provides for a method, system, and computer-usable medium that afford an equitably charging of a customer for computer usage time. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: tracking an amount of computer resources in a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) computer that are available to a customer for a specified period of time; determining if the computer resources in the SMT computer are operating at a nominal rate; and in response to determining that the computer resources are operating at a non-nominal rate, adjusting a billing charge to the customer, wherein the billing charge reflects that the customer has available computer resources, in the SMT computer, that are not operating at the nominal rate during the specified period of time.

摘要翻译： 因此，本发明提供了一种方法，系统和计算机可用介质，其为客户公平地对计算机使用时间进行计费。 在优选实施例中，该方法包括以下步骤：跟踪在指定时间段内对客户可用的同时多线程（SMT）计算机中的计算机资源量; 确定SMT计算机中的计算机资源是否以标称速率运行; 并且响应于确定所述计算机资源以非标称速率运行，对所述客户调整所述计费费用，其中所述计费费用反映所述客户具有可用的计算机资源，所述计算机资源在所述SMT计算机中不在 指定期间的名义利率。