Maintaining state information in a multi-component, event-driven state machine
US10592296B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 7, 2017 |
| Grant date | Mar 17, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 8, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/542
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product that allows for maintaining correct states of all sub-components in a state machine, even as sub-components leave the state machine and later rejoin in some previous state. Preferably, this is achieved without requiring the system to remember the states of all sub-components or a log of every event that was fed into the state machine. Thus, the technique does not require any knowledge of the previous state of the sub-components nor the need to preserve a complete log of events that were fed into the state machine. The state machine may be used to enhance the operation of a technological process, such as a workload management environment.
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