Patent ID: 9538617
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H05B,Y02B

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: lighting devices, each lighting device comprising: (A) a light source; (B) a communication interface configured to communicate through a communication network; (C) a processor; (D) a memory; and (E) one or more programs stored in the memory, wherein execution of the one or more programs configures the processor to make resources of the processor and/or the memory available via the communication interface for a distributed processing function; and a resource manager coupled to communicate through the communications network with the lighting devices and configured to: (a) receive a job for distributed processing; (b) determine resources of the processors and/or the memories are available in identified ones of the lighting devices for distributed processing of the received job; (c) distribute tasks and/or data of the received job through the communications network to the identified lighting devices, for distributed processing in the identified lighting devices; (d) receive, from the identified lighting devices through the communications network, results of distributed processing for the received job utilizing the available resources; and (e) process the received results to produce a composite result for a response to the received job.