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 electronic device of claim 33 wherein the operations further comprise:

if it is determined based on the comparison of the future value of the service level attribute and the target value for the service level attribute established by the service level agreement that the service provider will fall out of compliance with the service level agreement at a future time, taking action to prevent the service provider from falling out of compliance with the service level agreement before the future time.