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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Dal-Santo, North Vancouver, CA;
Lawrence H. Croft, Burnaby, CA;
Assignee:
Creo Inc., Burnaby, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a distributed computing system and method for efficiently utilizing system resources with a variable width queue to handle resource contention. The present invention varies the width of the queue of active tasks such that as a resource becomes idle, a new tasks is added to the queue thereby incrementing the width of the queue and fully utilizing system resources.