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Method and apparatus for managing processing resources in a distributed processing system
US9058166B2 · US · B2
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-9058166-B2 |
| Application number | US-201213412521-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | B2 |
| Filing date | Mar 5, 2012 |
| Priority date | Mar 5, 2012 |
| Publication date | Jun 16, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 2015 |
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In one aspect, the present invention reduces average power consumption in a distributed processing system by concentrating an overall processing load to the minimum number of processing units required to maintain a defined level of processing redundancy. When the required number of active processing units is fewer than all available processing units, the inactive processing units may be held in a reduced-power condition. The present invention thereby maintains the defined level of processing redundancy for reallocating jobs responsive to the failure of one of the active processing units, while reducing power consumption and simplifying jobs allocation and re-allocation when expanding or shrinking the active set of processing units responsive to changing processing load. As a non-limiting example, the distributed processing system is implemented within a telecommunications network router or other apparatus having a configured set of processing cards, such as control-plane processing cards.
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What is claimed is: 1. A method of concentrating a processing load comprising individually allocating processing jobs to a minimum number of processing units in a configured set of processing units to maintain a defined level of processing redundancy for the processing jobs, said method comprising: initially activating fewer than all of the processing units in the configured set, thereby logically forming an active set of two or more processing units to which new processing jobs a…
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- What does patent US9058166B2 cover?
- In one aspect, the present invention reduces average power consumption in a distributed processing system by concentrating an overall processing load to the minimum number of processing units required to maintain a defined level of processing redundancy. When the required number of active processing units is fewer than all available processing units, the inactive processing units may be held in…
- Who is the assignee on this patent?
- Yan Desmond, Ng Thomas, Ericsson Telefon Ab L M
- What technology area does this patent fall under?
- Primary CPC classification G06F1/3206. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
- When was this patent published?
- Publication date Tue Jun 16 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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- We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).