Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer data routing – Least weight routing
Patent
1997-05-29
2000-02-29
Banankhah, Majid A.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer data routing
Least weight routing
709100, G06F 900
Patent
active
060321725
ABSTRACT:
A task scheduling computer program retrieved from a server computer system through a computer network and executed by a client computer system which can be a network computer having no persistent, writeable storage. In executing the task scheduling computer program, a collection of one or more execution schedules are retrieved. The collection of execution schedules can be retrieved from the client computer system, from the server computer system, or from another computer system coupled to the client computer system through the computer network. The collection can be uniquely identified within the computer network by a universal resource locator (URL). Each execution schedule of the collection specifies one or more execution times and a task to be performed by the client computer system at the one or more execution times. For each of the one or more execution schedules, the client computer system performs the specified task at the one or more execution times. The execution times can be specified in the same manner in which a conventional crontab file specifies one or more times at which a specified command is executed using the conventional cron mechanism of the known UNIX operating system. Each execution schedule of the collection specifies a respective task to be performed at the specified execution times by identifying the task and specifying zero or more alphanumeric arguments to be supplied to the identified task as input data.
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Banankhah Majid A.
Ivey James D.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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