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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2011
Applicants:
Daniel Lipton, Belmont, CA (US);
Vladimir Lhotak, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Lipton, Belmont, CA (US);
Vladimir Lhotak, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5066 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5017 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for distributing an operation for processing by a set of background services. The method automatically determines a number of background services for performing an operation. The method partitions the operation into several sub-operations. The method distributes the several sub-operations across the determined number of background services.