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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2003
Michiko Matsumoto, Moriguchi, JP;
Yoshiaki Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Michiko Matsumoto, Moriguchi, JP;
Yoshiaki Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LTD, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a contention arbitration apparatus and method which can fully utilize the advantages of physical devices and can be flexibly adapted to a change of the physical devices. A contention arbitration apparatusincludes: a resource information storing sectionfor storing resource information; a device information storing sectionfor storing device information indicating a correspondence between a logic device and resources; a used resource recognizing sectionfor recognizing a resource associated with the logic device; a resource access determining sectionfor determining by reference to the resource information which application program is allowed to access the resource recognized by the used resource recognizing section; and a device access determining sectionfor determining, based on a determination result provided by the resource access determining section, whether the application program which has specified the logic device is able to access a physical device which implements functions defined by the logic device.