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System and method for sharing data polling and buffering for multiple requesters

  • US 20060085536A1
  • Filed: 09/30/2004
  • Published: 04/20/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method, in a data processing system, of polling at least one data source for data to be shared with a plurality of requesting computing devices, comprising:

  • receiving, from a requesting computing device, a refresh rate for polling data sources;

    aligning polling time points of the data sources for the requesting computing device with at least one other requesting computing device based on the refresh rate;

    retrieving data from the at least one data source in accordance with the polling time points of the data sources; and

    storing the data from the at least one data source in a storage location within a common data storage for the plurality of requesting computing devices.

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