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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2000
Fumio Nagasaka, Nagano, JP;
Fumio Nagasaka, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A management agent MEof a target Treceives a request of log-in from an initiator of interest and determines whether or not a number of initiators that currently log in the target Treaches a predetermined allowable number of simultaneous log-in (steps Sand S). In the case of an affirmative answer, the management agent MEreads an ordinal number of precedence 'n' allocated to a GUID of the initiator of interest from a queue (step S) and reads a time constant mapped to the input ordinal number of precedence 'n' from a time constant table (step S). The management agent MEsubsequently sends a status packet, which includes a log-in error status and the time constant, to the initiator of interest (step S). The initiator of interest receives the status packet, reads the time constant included in the input status packet, and outputs another request of log-in to the target Tat a timing specified by the time constant. This arrangement of the present invention practically ensures that the initiator that outputs the first request of log-in first to the target Tgains the log-in first.