Priority control in resource allocation for low request...

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Access arbitrating – Hierarchical or multilevel arbitrating

Reexamination Certificate

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

C710S111000, C710S120000, C710S241000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07631131

ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for priority control in resource allocation for low request rate, latency-sensitive units is provided. With this mechanism, when a unit makes a request to a token manager, the unit identifies the priority of its request as well as the resource which it desires to access and the unit's resource access group (RAG). This information is used to set a value of a storage device associated with the resource, priority, and RAG identified in the request. When the token manager generates and grants a token to the RAG, the token is in turn granted to a unit within the RAG based on a priority of the pending requests identified in the storage devices associated with the resource and RAG. Priority pointers are utilized to provide a round-robin fairness scheme between high and low priority requests within the RAG for the resource.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4491946 (1985-01-01), Kryskow, Jr. et al.
patent: 4819229 (1989-04-01), Pritty et al.
patent: 4864491 (1989-09-01), Ohuchi
patent: 4930121 (1990-05-01), Shiobara
patent: 5088024 (1992-02-01), Vernon et al.
patent: 5367679 (1994-11-01), Khaira
patent: 5388223 (1995-02-01), Guthrie et al.
patent: 5434861 (1995-07-01), Pritty et al.
patent: 6073132 (2000-06-01), Gehman
patent: 6157978 (2000-12-01), Ng et al.
patent: 6272580 (2001-08-01), Stevens et al.
patent: 6311249 (2001-10-01), Min et al.
patent: 6325293 (2001-12-01), Moreno
patent: 6522628 (2003-02-01), Patel et al.
patent: 6714553 (2004-03-01), Poole et al.
patent: 6907491 (2005-06-01), Moss
patent: 6978329 (2005-12-01), Harral
patent: 6990541 (2006-01-01), Clayton
patent: 7051135 (2006-05-01), Zhu
patent: 7127540 (2006-10-01), Lee
patent: 2003/0219028 (2003-11-01), Peyravian et al.
patent: 2005/0138254 (2005-06-01), Raghavan et al.
patent: 2005/0138621 (2005-06-01), Clark et al.
Zhang et al., “Token ring arbitration circuits for dynamic priority algorithms”, (abstract only), Publication date: Aug. 3-5, 1994, 2 pages.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Priority control in resource allocation for low request... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Priority control in resource allocation for low request..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Priority control in resource allocation for low request... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4054698

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.