Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Patent
1997-09-22
2000-01-11
Le, Dieu-Minh T.
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
705 8, 709103, G06F 1100
Patent
active
060147601
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a scheduling method and apparatus for use in an automated testing system for automatically scheduling and allocating jobs to test machines. The automated testing system may be distributed over a network, such as the Internet, for testing hardware and software. The user interfaces generate jobs in response to selections by the users and output the obs onto the network in the form of data packets. A plurality of test machines are in communication with the dispatcher machines via the network. When a test machine is available to process a job, the available test machine generates availability data packets which indicate that the test machine is available to process a job. These availability data packets are sent over the network and routed to the dispatcher machine designated by the address contained in the availability data packet. Upon receiving an availability data packet, the dispatcher machine determines whether one or more of the jobs on the list of jobs maintained by the dispatcher machine is capable of being performed by the available test machine. If one or more of the jobs listed are capable of being performed by the available test machine, the dispatcher machine instructs the test machine to perform one of the jobs, preferably the job having the highest priority.
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Allison Michael S.
Gillespie Richard W.
Silva Stephen
Sprague Fred
Yip Thomas
Hewlett--Packard Company
Le Dieu-Minh T.
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