Patent ID: 6295553
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for prioritizing the delivery of information transfer requests in a system having one or more requesters to supply the information transfer requests, wherein active ones of the requesters have currently pending information transfer requests and non-active ones of the requesters have no currently pending information transfer requests, the method comprising:granting transfer authorization to the information transfer request associated with an active requester that is currently assigned to the highest priority level in a range of priority levels;incrementing the priority levels assigned to each of the active and non-active requesters having a priority level less than the priority level of the active requester that was granted the transfer;maintaining a current priority level for each of the non-active requesters having a priority level greater than the priority level of the active requester that was granted the transfer; andreassigning the priority level of the active requester that was granted the transfer to the lowest priority level in the range of priority levels.