Patent ID: 7114159
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A processing resource configured to be executed on a computing device, comprising: a machine service component having a machine service proxy and a set of machine service attributes, the machine service component being configured to implement the machine service proxy and the set of machine service attributes to register the processing resource with a registry service so as to advertise an availability of the processing resource to execute a process; a process service component spawned by the machine service component upon the machine service component receipt of a request to execute the process from a system controller, wherein the system controller is configured to implement the machine service proxy to communicate with the processing resource and the process service component is configured to have a process service proxy and a set of process service attributes, the process service component being configured to implement the process service proxy and the set of process service attributes to register with the registry service, such that the process service component is registered with the registry service for a length of time necessary to execute the process and a lack of the process service proxy and a set of process service attributes in the registry service is configured to indicate the availability of the processing resource to execute the process having a similar type.