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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2012
Jacob R. Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jitendra Padhye, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian Zill, Bellevue, WA (US);
Wenbiao Xing, Bellevue, WA (US);
Wei Wan, Redmond, WA (US);
LI Chen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jacob R. Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jitendra Padhye, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian Zill, Bellevue, WA (US);
Wenbiao Xing, Bellevue, WA (US);
Wei Wan, Redmond, WA (US);
Li Chen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides a method for operating a sleep management service. The method include identifying a set of guardians based on a local state for each of a plurality of compute nodes. The method also includes sending a wake request to all sleeping compute nodes in the identified set. The method further includes sending a request to become a guardian to all compute nodes in the identified set. Additionally, the method includes stopping a current guardian from being a guardian if the current guardian is less suitable than a threshold number of current guardians.