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Strategies for monitoring the consumption of resources

  • US 20060026279A1
  • Filed: 07/28/2004
  • Published: 02/02/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for monitoring resource consumption in a local environment including a plurality of processing mechanisms, comprising:

  • assigning one of the processing mechanisms the role of master processing mechanism, thereby making at least one other of the processing mechanisms a slave processing mechanism;

    collecting, by the master processing mechanism, resource consumption information that describes the consumption of a resource by said at least one slave processing mechanism; and

    providing a resource consumption presentation based on the collected resource consumption information.

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