Patent ID: 7181485
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A contentions avoiding method for allowing an independently-clocked job requester to request respective processing of respectively requested jobs in an independently clocked, job processor where variable communication latencies may exist between the job requestor and the job processor, said method being machine implemented and comprising: (a) issuing to the job requester, a first time stamp representing a respectively scheduled, first time within a timing reference frame of the job processor at which a respective first job is to be performed; (b) in response to receipt of the first time stamp, sending from the job requester to the job processor, a combination of job payload data and a second time stamp also representing the scheduled, first time; (c) in response to receipt by the job processor of the combination of the job payload data and the second time stamp, storing the received job payload data in the job processor; and (d) causing the job processor to process the stored payload data when a time corresponding to the second time stamp occurs within the timing reference frame of the job processor.