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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2013
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Adam D. Braham, Rochester, MN (US);
Dennis D. Koski, Oronoco, MN (US);
Doyle J. McCoy, Rochester, MN (US);
Todd A. Mueller, Rochester, MN (US);
Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/105 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2013.01);
Abstract
An approach to control workflow so that a relatively high priority work item can sometimes be automatically controlled by software to interrupt work being performed, by one or more resource unit(s), on a relatively lower priority work item. The analysis for deciding whether or not an interruption occurs depends upon interruptibility scalars (that is, interruptibility quotients and/or factors) and interruptibility threshold(s).