Patent ID: 8069245

Claim:
A method for operating medical-technical computer applications at respective computers networked in a computer network, said computers comprising a central computer and a plurality of peripheral computers, comprising the steps of: for each peripheral computer, assigning a computer priority level thereto that is associated with the peripheral computer itself; for each user of each of said peripheral computers, assigning a user priority level thereto that is associated with said each user; defining a predetermined condition that, when satisfied, requires a temporary allocation of resources among the peripheral computers for executing respective medical technical computer applications at the peripheral computers; when said predetermined condition is satisfied, in said central computer, automatically assigning, to each of said peripheral computers, a temporary current rank dependent on a current configuration of said computer network according to which of said users is currently using which of said peripheral computers, said central computer calculating respective current ranks for each of said peripheral computers by a mathematical operation involving the computer priority level associated with a respective peripheral computer and the user priority level associated with the current user of the respective peripheral computer, said temporary current rank being assigned to each peripheral computer only while the current user is logged into the respective peripheral computer and being updated for each peripheral computer when the current user logs out of the respective peripheral computer; and from said central computer, allocating, via the network, said resources among the peripheral computers for executing said respective medical-technical computer applications at the peripheral computers, dependent on the temporary current ranks associated with the peripheral computers for a time during which said predetermined condition is satisfied.