Patent Application Number: 2007212667
Filing Date: January 30, 2007Priority Date: February 02, 2006
Inventors: Bantz David F., Chefalas, Thomas E., Gayek Peter W., Huber Walter C., Jalan Srikant, Lehrner Patrik, Mastrianni Steven J., Porak Marco
Applicants: International Business Machines Corporation
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The signal-bearing medium of claim 20 where determining what value the at least one service variable will assume during the service delivery event further comprises:

performing a trend analysis to predict the value the at least oneservice variable will assume during the service delivery event based on past values of theservice variable prior to the service delivery event.