Method and system for providing on-line interactivity over a server-client network
First Claim
1. A computer thread management system comprising:
- at least one processor;
a thread pool containing a plurality of threads for processing client requests, the threads in said thread pool being characterized in that they enter a wait state upon completion of a client request, and are not destroyed; and
thread management software operating a plurality of threads including said thread pool, and operating said at least one processor by causing it to process requests using at least one thread, said thread management software being characterized in that it creates a new thread within said thread pool when an existing thread in said thread pool has exceeded a predetermined non-zero amount of busyness, irrespective of whether or not a client request is waiting in an incoming request queue for processing.
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Abstract
Apparatus and a method for communicating media over a network including encoding the media into a server database at a server, downloading from the server database to a client database generally only those portions of the media which are necessary to satisfy user requests and in response to a user request for a given item of media, determining whether the media is present in the client database, and if not, automatically downloading those portions of the media which are necessary to supply the user with the given item of media from the server database. An image server is provided including at least one processor operative to supply portions of image data to clients in response to multiple requests therefrom, and thread management software operating the at least one processor by causing it to process the requests using at least one of a plurality of threads, the thread management software being characterized in that it initiates a new thread when an existing thread has exceeded a predetermined metric of busyness.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer thread management system comprising:
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at least one processor;
a thread pool containing a plurality of threads for processing client requests, the threads in said thread pool being characterized in that they enter a wait state upon completion of a client request, and are not destroyed; and
thread management software operating a plurality of threads including said thread pool, and operating said at least one processor by causing it to process requests using at least one thread, said thread management software being characterized in that it creates a new thread within said thread pool when an existing thread in said thread pool has exceeded a predetermined non-zero amount of busyness, irrespective of whether or not a client request is waiting in an incoming request queue for processing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer thread management method comprising:
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operating at least one processor and a thread pool containing a plurality of threads for processing client requests, the threads in said thread pool being characterized in that they enter a wait state upon completion of a client request, and are not destroyed, including;
utilizing thread management software operating a plurality of threads including said thread pool, and operating said at least one processor by causing it to process requests using at least one thread, said thread management software being characterized in that it creates a new thread within said thread pool when an existing thread in said thread pool has exceeded a predetermined non-zero amount of busyness, irrespective of whether or not a client request is waiting in an incoming request queue for processing. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A computer thread management system for processing multiple requests by using at least one of a plurality of processing threads comprising:
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thread monitoring software monitoring said plurality of processing threads; and
thread management software creating new threads, preserving some processing threads after processing requests by putting them into a wait state, lowering priorities of threads, and allowing some threads to be destroyed after processing requests, based upon output from said thread monitoring software. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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29. A computer thread management method for processing multiple requests using at least one of a plurality of processing threads comprising:
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monitoring said plurality of processing threads;
creating new threads based upon output from said monitoring;
preserving some processing threads after processing requests by putting them into a wait state, based upon output from said monitoring;
lowering priorities of threads based upon output from said monitoring; and
allowing some threads to be destroyed after processing requests based upon output from said monitoring. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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Specification