1. A communication terminal comprising:
an attribute data acquisition unit that acquires attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory;
a notification controller that controls a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit; and
a real data acquisition unit that acquires real data predetermined as an acquisition target by the communication terminal with the notification controller not notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the predetermined real data.
2. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the real data acquisition unit acquires the real data in response to an acquisition instruction for the real data made by the user if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit fails to match the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, or if the attribute of the real data is not predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal.
3. The communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein the notification controller controls the notification unit to notify the user of a content item indicated by the acquired real data with the real data acquisition unit having acquired the real data if the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit fails to match the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, or if the attribute of the real data is not predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and
wherein the communication terminal further comprises a deletion unit that deletes the real data from the communication terminal after the notification controller has notified the user of the content item of the real data.
4. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein if the attribute data acquisition unit has acquired the attribute data of a plurality of pieces of the real data, the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and the pieces of the real data are set in a priority order, the real data acquisition unit acquires the pieces of the real data in the priority order.
5. The communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein if the attribute data acquisition unit has acquired the attribute data of a plurality of pieces of the real data, the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and the pieces of the real data are set in a priority order, the real data acquisition unit acquires the pieces of the real data in the priority order.
6. The communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein if the attribute data acquisition unit has acquired the attribute data of a plurality of pieces of the real data, the attribute indicated by the attribute data acquired by the attribute data acquisition unit matches the attribute of the real data predetermined as the acquisition target in the communication terminal, and the pieces of the real data are set in a priority order, the real data acquisition unit acquires the pieces of the real data in the priority order.
7. A communication system comprising:
the communication terminal according to claim 1; and
a data transmitter that transmits, to the communication terminal, real data as a content item.
8. A communication method comprising:
acquiring attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory;
controlling a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data; and
acquiring real data predetermined as an acquisition target without notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data matches the attribute of the predetermined real data.
9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for communication, the process comprising:
acquiring attribute data indicating an attribute of real data if at least a single piece of the real data is added or updated as one of content items on a data memory;
controlling a notification unit to notify a user of the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data; and
acquiring real data predetermined as an acquisition target without notifying the user of the attribute indicated by the attribute data if the attribute indicated by the acquired attribute data matches the attribute of the predetermined real data.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for controlling access to a computer system resource, the method comprising:
defining at least one environmental activation threshold metric, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric is a workload characteristic of the computer system resource;
monitoring access to the computer system resource and determining whether usage of the computer system resource meets the at least one environmental activation threshold metric, and if so, then for a current transaction requiring access to the computer system resource:
collecting at least one identifying attribute of the transaction; and
employing the at least one identifying attribute in determining whether the transaction is for at least one entity having a predefined usage limit, and if so, throttling access of the at least one entity to the computer system resource when the predefined usage limit for the at least one entity is met, otherwise allowing the current transaction to proceed unthrottled, wherein the at least one entity is less than all entities accessing the computer system resource.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the throttling comprises delaying processing of the transaction based upon a throttling directive.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the throttling directive comprises at least one of:
waiting a predetermined period of time before the computer system resource provides a response to the at least one entity; and
assigning a lower priority to the at least one entity in a computer resource scheduling algorithm.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one entity comprises a distinct connection to the computer system resource.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one entity comprises at least one of a network address or subset of network addresses, a user, another computer system resource, a server, a communications entity, and a storage entity.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric comprises at least one of:
computer system resource requests per time period;
computer system resource consumption per time period;
concurrent computer system resource sessions;
percent of incoming requests to the computer system resource by the at least one entity; and
percent of computer system resource load.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining whether the at least one environmental activation threshold metric has been met, comprises collecting at least one of current usage information for the computer system resource and a current utilization per defined time interval for the computer system resource.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the throttling comprises delaying access by the at least one entity to the computer system resource for a predefined time interval.
9. A system for controlling access to a computer system resource, the system comprising:
means for defining at least one environmental activation threshold metric, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric is a workload characteristic of the computer system resource;
means for monitoring access to the computer system resource and means for determining whether usage of the computer system resource meets the at least one environmental activation threshold metric, and if so, then for a current transaction requiring access to the computer system resource:
means for collecting at least one identifying attribute of the transaction; and
means for employing the at least one identifying attribute in determining whether the transaction is for at least one entity having a predefined usage limit, and if so, for throttling access of the at least one entity to the computer system resource when the predefined usage limit for the at least one entity is met, otherwise for allowing the current transaction to proceed unthrottled, wherein the at least one entity is less than all entities accessing the computer system resource.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the means for throttling comprises means for delaying processing of the transaction based upon a throttling directive.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the means for throttling directive comprises at least one of
means for waiting a predetermined period of time before the computer system resource provides a response to the at least one entity; and
means for assigning a lower priority to the at least one entity in a computer resource scheduling algorithm.
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one entity comprises a distinct connection to the computer system resource.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one entity comprises at least one of a network address or subset of network addresses, a user, another computer system resource, a server, a communications entity, and a storage entity.
14. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric comprises at least one of:
computer system resource requests per time period;
computer system resource consumption per time period;
concurrent computer system resource sessions;
percent of incoming requests to the computer system resource by the at least one entity; and
percent of computer system resource load.
15. The system of claim 9, wherein said means for determining whether the at least one environmental activation threshold metric has been met, comprises means for collecting at least one of current usage information for the computer system resource and a current utilization per defined time interval for the computer system resource.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the means for throttling comprises means for delaying access by the at least one entity to the computer system resource for a predefined time interval.
17. At least one program storage device readable by a machine tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of controlling access to a computer system resource, the method comprising:
defining at least one environmental activation threshold metric, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric is a workload characteristic of the computer system resource;
monitoring access to the computer system resource and determining whether usage of the computer system resource meets the at least one environmental activation threshold metric, and if so, then for a current transaction requiring access to the computer system resource:
collecting at least one identifying attribute of the transaction; and
employing the at least one identifying attribute in determining whether the transaction is for at least one entity having a predefined usage limit, and if so, throttling access of the at least one entity to the computer system resource when the predefined usage limit for the at least one entity is met, otherwise allowing the current transaction to proceed unthrottled, wherein the at least one entity is less than all entities accessing the computer system resource.
18. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein the throttling comprises delaying processing of the transaction based upon a throttling directive.
19. The at least one program storage device of claim 18, wherein the throttling directive comprises at least one of:
waiting a predetermined period of time before the computer system resource provides a response to the at least one entity; and
assigning a lower priority to the at least one entity in a computer resource scheduling algorithm.
20. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein the at least one entity comprises a distinct connection to the computer system resource.
21. The at least one program storage device of claim 20, wherein the at least one entity comprises at least one of a network address or subset of network addresses, a user, another computer system resource, a sever, a communications entity, and a storage entity.
22. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein the at least one environmental activation threshold metric comprises at least one of:
computer system resource requests per time period;
computer system resource consumption per time period;
concurrent computer system resource sessions;
percent of incoming requests to the computer system resource by the at least one entity; and
percent of computer system resource load.
23. The at least one program storage device of claim 17, wherein said determining whether the at least one environmental activation threshold metric has been met, comprises collecting at least one of current usage information for the computer system resource and a current utilization per defined time interval for the computer system resource.
24. The at least one program storage device of claim 23, wherein the throttling comprises delaying access by the at least one entity to the computer system resource for a predefined time interval.