Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac – Task management or control – Process scheduling
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-22
2008-07-29
Ho, Andy (Department: 2194)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac
Task management or control
Process scheduling
C718S100000, C718S101000, C718S103000, C718S104000, C709S223000, C709S226000, C709S229000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07406689
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a computer-implemented planning process that aids a system administrator in the task of creating a job schedule. The process treats enterprise computing resources as a grid of resources, which provides greater flexibility in assigning resources to jobs. During the planning process, an administrator or other user, or software, builds a job-dependency tree. Jobs are then ranked according to priority, pickiness, and network centricity. Difficult and problematic jobs then are assigned resources and scheduled first, with less difficult jobs assigned resources and scheduled afterwards. The resources assigned to the most problematic jobs then are changed iteratively to determine if the plan improves. This iterative approach not only increases the efficiency of the original job schedule, but also allows the planning process to react and adapt to new, ad-hoc jobs, as well as unexpected interruptions in resource availability.
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Berstis Viktors
Boon Kyle
Hicks Creighton M.
Voldman Bella
Gordon & Rees LLP
Ho Andy
Mims Jr. David A.
Siegesmund Rudolf O.
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