Patent ID: 7949753
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of resource devices implemented in at least one processing node, each resource device arranged to maintain and provide state information about its allocation to one or more resource users, wherein the one or more resource users comprise one or more application programs, and wherein at least one resource device is arranged to store a predetermined initial allocation whereby upon that resource device becoming available to the system, it can provide state information including said initial allocation without having to wait to be allocated to a resource user by the system; a state-dissemination arrangement for disseminating the state information provided by the resource devices; and at least one receiving entity arranged to receive state information from the state-dissemination arrangement, said receiving entity comprising at least one resource user arranged to use the state information it receives to ascertain which of the resource devices, if any, have been allocated to it.