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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2012
Applicants:

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);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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