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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2011
Applicants:
Ron Barzel, Truckee, CA (US);
Felix S. Hsu, Fremont, CA (US);
Ronald S. Cok, Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kodak Alaris Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of allocating computing tasks in a communication network comprises providing a server that sends a request with an expiration time over the network to one or more processor computers for an allocation of a processing task to be performed by the server computer. The server computer performs the allocated processing task to completion if it's received within the expiration time and only if a higher priority task is not received before processing is completed.