Patent ID: 6219801
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A work inheriting system applied to a system in which processes for a plurality of works are carried out by a plurality of processing units in a hot standby mode and a load sharing mode, said work inheriting system comprising:storage means for storing a table indicating whether work to be processed in the hot standby mode and work to be processed in the load sharing mode are assigned to the respective processing units and whether each of the processing units to which the work to be processed in the hot standby mode is assigned is a current system or a standby system; andmeans for, when a problem occurs in one of the plurality of processing units, causing a processing unit which is the standby system for work to be processed in the hot standby mode to inherit processes for the hot standby work assigned to the processing unit having the problem, and causing another processing unit that is assigned work to be processed in the load sharing mode to inherit processes of the load sharing work, with reference to the table stored in the storage means.