US 7,257,582 C1 (13,268th)
Load balancing with shared data
Michael Rothschild, Ramot Hashavim (IL)
Filed by Michael Rothschild, Ramot Hashavim (IL)
Assigned to INTELLECTUAL VENTURES I LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)
Reexamination Request No. 90/015,337, Jun. 20, 2025.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 7,257,582, issued Aug. 14, 2007, Appl. No. 10/375,893, Feb. 27, 2003.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/363,853, filed on Mar. 13, 2002.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Jun. 1, 2026.
Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/5027 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99945 (2013.01)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-14 is confirmed.
1. A method of effecting on a preexisting input file a computer-executable process comprised of a plurality of subtasks, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) automatically determining file allocation and logically subdividing records of said input file into a plurality of partitions;
(b) distributing descriptions of all of said partitions to each of a plurality of subtask processors
c) simultaneously executing a least a respective one of the subtasks of the computer-executable process in each of at least some of said processors on a respective one of the partitions with each subtask reading and processing the respective partition so as to process the respective partition and produce respective subtask output and;
d) thereafter repeating step (c) in at least some of the subtask processors each with another unprocessed partition on a first-come/first-served basis, and
(e) generating at least one output combining all of the subtask outputs and reflecting the processing of all of said subtasks.