Mechanism to create a reservation against a future scheduling object instantiation

• US 8,054,487 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2004
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Iannucci, Pietro, Cagnetta, Maria Pia, Kumhyr, David Bruce, Benedetti, Fabio
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore; David K
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thomas; Ashish K
• Application Number:
  US11/014,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20060132828A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,518 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.16, 358/1.13, 400/61, 379/265.05, 379/266.05, 709/203, 709/206, 714/4, 707/829, 702/108
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/126 Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

A method in a data processing system for managing jobs. A change to a job receiving that is un-instantiated. A reservation for the job is created. Instantiated jobs for an instance of the job are monitored corresponding to the reservation, and applying the change to the instance of the job responsive to identifying the instantiated job.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method in a data processing system for managing jobs, the method comprising:

scheduling an uninstantiated job on a job list;

receiving a change to the uninstantiated job;

responsive to receiving the change to the uninstantiated job, generating a reservation within a reservation database, wherein the reservation comprises modifications to be made to a job instance corresponding to the uninstantiated job;

monitoring a queue of instantiated jobs for the job instance corresponding to the uninstantiated job; and

responsive to identifying the job instance in the job queue of instantiated jobs, modifying the instance of the job with the modifications from the reservation.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the changes to the job includes attributes of the job to be changed.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising storing the generated reservation in a database.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

selecting a reservation from the database; and

determining whether the selected reservation includes a change that requires reserving a resource.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the resource comprises a server.

6. A data processing system for managing jobs, the data processing system comprising a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions comprising:

scheduling means for scheduling an uninstantiated job on a job list;

receiving means for receiving a change to the uninstantiated job;

generating means, responsive to receiving the change to the uninstantiated job, for generating a reservation within a reservation database, wherein the reservation comprises modifications to be made to a job instance corresponding to the uninstantiated job;

monitoring means for monitoring a queue of instantiated jobs for the job instance corresponding to the uninstantiated job; and

modifying means, responsive to identifying the job instance in the job queue of instantiated jobs, for modifying the instance of the job with the modifications from the reservation.

7. The data processing system of claim 6, wherein the changes to the job includes attributes of the job to be changed.

8. The data processing system of claim 6, further comprising storing the generated reservation in a database.

9. A non-transitory computer recordable-type medium, in a data processing system, storing instructions for managing jobs, the computer recordable medium comprising:

first instructions for scheduling an uninstantiated job on a job list;

second instructions receiving a change to the uninstantiated job;

third instructions, responsive to receiving the change to the uninstantiated job, for generating a reservation within a reservation database, wherein the reservation comprises modifications to be made to a job instance corresponding to the uninstantiated job;

fourth instructions for monitoring means for monitoring a queue of instantiated jobs for the job instance corresponding to the uninstantiated job; and

;

fifth instructions, responsive to identifying the job instance in the job queue of instantiated jobs, for modifying the instance of the job with the modifications from the reservation.

10. The non-transitory computer recordable-type medium of claim 9, wherein the change to the job includes attributes of the job to be changed.

11. The non-transitory computer recordable-type medium of claim 9, further comprising storing the generated reservation in a database.

12. The non-transitory computer recordable-type medium of claim 11, further comprising fifth instructions:

selecting a reservation from the database; and

determining whether the selected reservation includes a change that requires reserving a resource.

13. The non-transitory computer recordable-type medium of claim 12, wherein the resource comprises a server.