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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Fujitsu Limited, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Jose Albornoz, Iver Heath, GB;

Sven van den Berghe, Marlo Bucks, GB;

Peter Chow, Gillingham, GB;

Assignee:

FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 9/5094 (2013.01); Y02B 60/142 (2013.01); Y02B 60/162 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computing device configured to operate as a particular computing device among a plurality of interconnected computing devices, comprising: a load information obtaining unit configured to obtain, from the particular computing device and from the or each of a group of one or more other computing devices from among the plurality of interconnected computing devices, load information representing the current computational load of the computing device from which the information is obtained; and a load redistribution determination unit configured, in dependence upon the obtained load information, to determine whether or not to redistribute computational load among the particular computing device and the group, and if it is determined to redistribute computational load, to determine the redistribution and to instruct the determined redistribution.


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