Patent ID: 7783401
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A device for managing tasks assigned to a server mounted in a vehicle, the server being communicably connected to clients mounted in the vehicle and activating the tasks to respond to a plurality of services requested from the clients in order to control the vehicle, the device comprising: a table that memorizes a correspondence between the plurality of services and the tasks, wherein two or more services among the a plurality of services are allocated to at least one of the tasks, a receiving block that receives a request for a service requested by any of the clients as one of the plurality of services; a determining block that makes reference to the table to determine whether or not the task allocated to the requested service newly received by the receiving block is currently in execution for a requested service received before the requested service is newly received; and an allowing block that allows the task currently in execution to i) perform processing of the requested service received before the requested service is newly received and, thereafter, to ii) continuously perform processing of the requested service newly received, when the determining block determines that the task allocated to the requested service newly received is currently in execution.