Abstract: The invention presents a novel and efficient method of facilitating accurate usage billing. In a multi-user service provider environment, using weighted records of web-server usage to determine each user's bill for services is provided. The invention provides for billing with a minimal amount of overhead on the web host, which will benefit the web host's profit margin. The invention utilizes three pieces of information to compute the amount of usage. The weights that are associated with the functions are determined in order to score the system resource utilization of the respective functions. The weights need to be determined only once during the entire life cycle of the application, and may be based on empirical data or determined through lab tests. The weight can be stored in a static file.

Abstract: The invention presents a novel and efficient method of facilitating accurate usage billing. In a multi-user service provider environment, using weighted records of web-server usage to determine each user's bill for services is provided. The invention provides for billing with a minimal amount of overhead on the web host, which will benefit the web host's profit margin. The invention utilizes three pieces of information to compute the amount of usage. The weights that are associated with the functions are determined in order to score the system resource utilization of the respective functions. The weights need to be determined only once during the entire life cycle of the application, and may be based on empirical data or determined through lab tests. The weight can be stored in a static file.

Abstract: An optimizer that reduces execution time of computer code and a system and method that optimizes an execution time for a sequence of instruction blocks in a processor. The optimizer includes: (1) a parsing routine that scans the computer code to identify a conditional branching instruction that leads to execution being diverted from a main execution stream into a branch execution stream in which computer code is executed non-sequentially and (2) a code replication routine that inserts instructions into the branch execution stream to reduce non-sequential code execution.