Patent ID: 7137119
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A resource management system, comprising: an existing activity that utilizes a first resource which is specified in a first activity configuration strucuture associated with the existing activity: a new activity that requests utilization of the first resource which is currently in use by the existing activity, and requests utilization of a second resource, the first resource and the second resource being specified in a second activity configuration structure associated with the new activity; and a resource manager configured to arbitrate current use of the resource between the existing activity and the new activity in accordance with a priority-based policy such that, in an event that the existing activity has an assigned lower priority than the assigned priority of the new activity, the resource manager is configured to preempt use of the first resource by the existing activity to permit the new activity to utilize the first resource unless a sufficient amount of the second resource requested by the new activity is not available.