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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2005
Conor P. Morrison, Seattle, WA (US);
Sivaprasad V Padisetty, Redmond, WA (US);
Arvind Gopalan, Hacienda Heights, CA (US);
Conor P. Morrison, Seattle, WA (US);
Sivaprasad V Padisetty, Redmond, WA (US);
Arvind Gopalan, Hacienda Heights, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An application programming interface (API) presents services of a system to applications. The API is usable with all processes, local and remote, and is transparent with respect to the location of processes. A process table stores information about processes created using the system. The process table supports centralized process control and peer-to-peer process communication and synchronization. Each process is assigned a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) that uniquely identifies the process no matter the computing device on which it runs. A parent UUID and a group UUID may be attached to the process and used for enforcing dependencies (e.g., for halting the process and all of its child processes) and for managing arbitrary, user-defined groups, respectively. A global event is associated with each process. When a process receives this event, it performs a controlled shutdown, cleans up, and reports status.