Patent ID: 7430628
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for allocation of shared processing resources comprising: means adapted for receiving resource request data associated with completion of a document processing operation, the resource request data including resource identifier data and resource quantity data corresponding to a plurality of components of an associated document processing device required to complete the document processing operation; means adapted for receiving resource usage data representative of relative usage order associated with a plurality of processing resources; means adapted for assessing resource usage corresponding to at least one previously submitted document processing operation assigned to the document processing device; monitoring means adapted for generating status data representative of present and future status of the plurality of processing resources in accordance with assessed resource usage; comparison means adapted for generating comparison data representative of a comparison of received request data with status data; resource locking means for locking resources of the document processing device corresponding to the resource request data in accordance with an output of the comparison means; and resource release means adapted for selectively releasing resources corresponding to received resource request data in accordance with a completion of the document processing operation.