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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1996
Mark John Baugher, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Palmer Stephens, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and program for adjusting a resource reservation for multimedia and normal traffic. An initialization file is used for storing data concerning a resource including a current maximum resource reservation for multimedia traffic. The user is presented the current maximum resource reservation, preferably in a graphical user interface to allow the user to adjust the resource reservation to a new maximum resource reservation in the initialization file. One preferred graphical user interface presents a range of resource reservations is represented as a scale and the current maximum resource reservation as a point on the scale. The resource reservation is used by the operating system or other software for reserving a portion of the resource. The remainder of the resource is allocated to normal traffic.