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 1 wherein the operations further comprise:

prior to receiving an updated value for the at least one service level attribute and an updated value of the cost estimate, accessing a service delivery model for use in determining the updated value for the at least one service level attribute and the updated value of the cost estimate;

and using the service delivery model to determine the updated value for the at least one service level attribute and the updated value for the cost estimate.