Patent ID: 9411637
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to change an importance of a first daemon process, the method comprising: receiving a first message from a user process destined for the first daemon process, wherein the first daemon process executes independently of the user process, the first daemon process communicates messages with other executing processes, and the first message is a service request for a service provided by the first daemon process from the user process; determining if the first message indicates that the importance of the first daemon process can be changed; if the first message indicates the importance of the first daemon process can be changed, forwarding the first message to the first daemon process, wherein the first daemon process services the service request at the higher importance value and the forwarding includes, enqueueing the message in a port queue for the first daemon process; and changing the importance of the first daemon process back to the lower importance value after the first daemon process services the service request.