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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2002
Satomi Furukawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Shozo Suzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroshi Oide, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An object of the invention is to minimize the number of in-process items. To this end, in an inter-process buffer controlling apparatus according to the invention, the size of a buffer to be used for storage of work subjects of predetermined work is increased if a difference or a ratio between a variance of first intervals at which the work subjects are delivered to the buffer and a variance of duration that is taken for the preceding process exceeds a prescribed first threshold value, and the size of the buffer is decreased if a difference or a ratio between an average of second intervals at which work subjects generated by the work are delivered to the following buffer and an average of the first intervals exceeds a prescribed second threshold value.