Patent Document ID: 20040111497
Application ID: 10639865
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. In a data processing structure with a distributed architecture ( 100 ) including a plurality of subject entities ( 110 a ) and at last one authority entity ( 105 ), a resource management method ( 300, 400 a ) for consistently self-configuring the subject entities, each subject entity controlling an instance of at least one resource and belonging to at least one of a plurality of logic categories and to at least one of a plurality of physic categories, the at least one authority entity defining a target state of the resources, wherein the method includes the steps of: publishing ( 305 - 335 ) a plurality of rules by the at least one authority entity, at least one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a logic category of the subject entities and at least a further one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a physic category of the subject entities, and for each subject entity: retrieving ( 403 - 418 ) the rules corresponding to the at least one logic category of the subject entity, applying ( 420 - 432 ) each retrieved rule to configure the subject entity according to the target state thereby updating the at least one physic category of the subject entity, retrieving ( 403 - 418 ) the rules corresponding to the at least one physic category of the subject entity, and applying ( 420 - 432 ) each retrieved rule to configure the subject entity according to the target state.