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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:
Aug. 23, 2016
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);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/505 (2013.01); H04L 2209/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
Server computers send requests over a network for an allocation of server tasks and processing tasks, the processing task requests having an associated expiration time. The plurality of server computers process received server tasks provided to the server computers in response to the requests, and process processing tasks within the expiration time in response to the requests for processing tasks. The server computers perform the allocated processing tasks only if there are no pending server tasks.