Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Denis Chalon

Bruno Richard

Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method for saving data stored within a portion of a memory associated with a first process executable by a data processing system; the method comprising the steps of: executing, substantially concurrently or substantially in parallel under control of a scheduler, a first process, with a respective execution priority, to perform a data processing task using a current portion of the memory and a backup process, having a respective execution priority, to create a back-up copy of data stored within the memory during the performance of that data processing task; the backup process being executable in response to a predeterminable event associated with the first process; and creating a back-up copy of the data in response to the predeterminable event associated with the first process.

Data processing system and method

A method of brokering network services by identifying a service which is complementary to a first service, the first service having an associated first service description comprising first service identification information identifying the service offered and first interface type information, the first interface type information comprising at least one of an input format accepted by the first service and an output format generated by the first service, the method comprising the steps of; identifying a second service having an associated second service description comprising second service identification information identifying the service offered and second interface type information which is complementary to the first interface type information, and modifying the first service description in accordance with the second service description.

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