Patent ID: 8412818

Claim:
A method for managing requests to resources among master processors of a portable computing device comprising: receiving, from a master processor, an alert indicating that a plurality of resources for servicing the master processor are identified, and that desired states for the plurality of resources are identified, wherein identifications of the plurality of resources and the desired states are stored in a storage device that is part of the portable computing device; determining if one or more previous requests to resources have been processed to completion; if the one or more previous requests to resources have been processed to completion, then reviewing contents of the storage device to identify the plurality of resources and to identify the desired states of the resources; passing the desired states to the plurality of resources; and reviewing one or more stored tables that establish a meta-resource, wherein the one or more stored tables list a plurality of resources and fields that indicate whether the master processor should be notified of status changes to the resources.