Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 20050283673A1
• Filed: 05/23/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ode, Naoki
• Application Number:
  US11/134,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20050283673A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/31
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2025 using centralised failover control functionality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2051 in regular structures

Abstract

In the information processing apparatus, the information processing method, and the program according to the embodiment of the present invention, With the execution of the application program by the first information processing means, a plurality of processingd assigned to a plurality of second information processing means is set to be a processing unit proposing one function as a whole, the execution of the distributed processing for proposing a function corresponding to the processing unit in the second information processing means is controlled, first information relating to any one of abnormalities of the second information processing means executing the distributed processing is acquired, second information set depending on the processing unit and designating the operation when the abnormality is detected is acquired, and the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit is controlled based on the second information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

first information processing means;

a plurality of second information processing means; and

abnormality detecting means for detecting abnormality of the second information processing means, wherein

the first information processing means includes;

application program execution control means for controlling the execution of the application program;

distributed processing control means for controlling a distributed processing for proposing one function by combining a plurality of processings assigned to a plurality of the second information processing means by the application program in which the execution is controlled by the processing of the application program execution control means; and

abnormality information acquiring means for acquring first information relating to the abnormality of the second information processing means detected by the abnormality detecting means, and

the distributed processing control means stores the second information designating the case where the abnormality of the second information processing means is detected by the abnormality detecting means set depending on the processing unit, and controls the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit based on the second information when the first information is acquired by the abnormality information acquiring means.

2. The information processing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein

the operations in the case where the abnormality is detected such as designated in the second information may be able to include an operation for stopping all of the distributed processings corresponding to the processing unit.

3. The information processing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein

the operations in the case where the abnormality such as designated in the second information is detected may be able to include an operation, after all distributed processings corresponding to the processing unit are once stopped, for reopening the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit so as to have the second information processing means, which does not execute the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit, execute the distributed processing executed by the second information processing means in which the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detecting means.

4. The information processing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein

the operations in the case where the abnormality such as designated in the second information is detected may be able to include an operation for stopping the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit executed by the second information processing means in which the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detecting means, and for continuing the distributed processing executed by the second information processing means in which the distributed processing is executed and the abnormality is not occurring.

5. The information processing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein

the operations in the case where the abnormality such as designated in the second information is detected may be able to include an operation, once all distributed processings corresponding to the processing unit are stopped and after the second information processing means in which the abnormaliy is detected by the abnormality detecting means becomes an operable state, for reopening the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit so as to have the plurality of second information processing means which execute the distributed processing before the stop of the processing execute the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit.

6. The information processing apparatus as cited in claim 1, wherein

the operations in the case where the abnormality such as designated in the second information is detected may be able to include an operation, after all distributed processings corresponding to the processing unit are once stopped, for reopening the distributed processing corresponding the the processing unit so as to have the second information processing means in which the distributed processing is executed and the abnormality is not occurring execute a first distributed processing executed before the stop of the processing and a second distributed processing executed by the second information processing means in which the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detecting means in a time-sharing manner.

7. The information processing apparatus as cited in claim 6, wherein

the first information processing means may have any one of second information processing apparatuses further include time division processing control means for controlling the time-sharing processing in the case where the first distributed processing and the second distributed processing are executed in a time-sharing manner.

8. An information processing method an information processing apparatus which includes first information processing means, and a plurality of second information processing means, comprising:

a distributed processing start request step for requesting start of the distributed processing for proposing a function corresponding to a processing unit which proposes one function by combining a plurality of processings assigned to a plurality of the second information processing means by the execution of the application program by the first information processing means;

an abnormality detection step for detecting abnormality of the second information processing means executing the distributed processing;

an abnormality information acquiring step for acquiring first information relating to the abnormality of the second information processing means detected by the processing of the abnormality detection step;

an abnormal operation information acquiring step for acquiring second information set depending on the processing unit and designating the operation in the case where abnormality is detected when the first information is acquired by the processing of the abnormality information acquiring step; and

a distributed processing control step for controlling the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit based on the second information acquired by the processing of the abnormal operation information acquiring step.

9. A program executable by a computer for controlling a distributed processing in a first information processing means and a plurality of second information processing means comprising:

a distributed processing start request step for requesting start of the distributed processing for proposing a function corresponding to a processing unit which proposes one function by combining a plurality of processings assigned to a plurality of the second information processing means by the execution of the application program by the first information processing means;

an abnormality information acquiring step for acquiring first information relating to the abnormality of any one of the second information processing means executing the distributed processing;

an abnormal operation information acquiring step for acquiring second information set depending on the processing unit and designating the operation in the case where abnormality is detected when the first information is acquired by the processing of the abnormality information acquiring step; and

a distributed processing control step for controlling the distributed processing corresponding to the processing unit based on the second information acquired by the processing of the abnormal operation information acquiring step.