Providing resumption data in a distributed processing system
US9727373B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 27, 2008 |
| Grant date | Aug 8, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 13, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3433
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An approach for providing a user with resumption data before pausing or terminating a partially-processed job that is processing in a distributed system. Certain applications, when paused, are not able to resume processing data at precisely the point where it was paused. As a result, users surrender some, or all, of the processed portion of the data when processing is paused. In one embodiment of the invention, a user is provided with resumption data before the user confirms a request to pause the processing. Resumption data from each of the service nodes that is processing a segment of source data are collected and aggregated. Resumption data reflects a measure of processed data that would require re-processing if the processing were paused and resumed. Alternatively, resumption data includes a duration of spent processing time that would be lost if the processing were paused and resumed.
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