Apparatus, method and program for contention arbitration

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2006-02-14

2006-02-14

Perveen, Rehana (Department: 2112)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Access arbitrating

C709S223000, C709S225000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07000050

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a contention arbitration apparatus and method which can fully utilize the advantages of physical devices and can be flexibly adapted to a change of the physical devices. A contention arbitration apparatus1includes: a resource information storing section14for storing resource information; a device information storing section18for storing device information indicating a correspondence between a logic device and resources; a used resource recognizing section13for recognizing a resource associated with the logic device; a resource access determining section15for determining by reference to the resource information which application program is allowed to access the resource recognized by the used resource recognizing section; and a device access determining section16for determining, based on a determination result provided by the resource access determining section, whether the application program which has specified the logic device is able to access a physical device which implements functions defined by the logic device.

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