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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Vincent Mallet, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a technique for assigning a server to manage resources. The server identifies a capacity value that represents a maximum number of resources that the server can simultaneously manage, and parses data included in a tracker directory to identify the resources that have the fewest number of servers assigned to manage them. Next, based on the capacity value, the server registers to manage the identified resources, where each registration to manage an identified resource results in the server actively managing the resource when no other server is registered to manage the resource, or acting as a backup manager to the resource when at least one other server is registered to manage the resource, and the tracker directory is updated accordingly. Finally, the server, for each registration that results in actively managing a resource, configures itself to process client device requests that are directed to utilizing the resource.