Method and apparatus for providing enhanced pay per view in a video server
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Jan 4, 2000
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Mar 27, 1996
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A method and an apparatus are disclosed for providing enhanced pay per view in a video server. Specifically, the present invention periodically schedules a group of non pre-emptible tasks corresponding to videos in a video server having a predetermined number of processors, wherein each task is defined by a computation time and a period. To schedule the group of tasks, the present invention divides the tasks into two groups according to whether they may be scheduled on less than one processor. The present invention schedules each group separately. For the group of tasks scheduleable on less than one processor, the present invention conducts a first determination of scheduleability. If the first determination of scheduleability deems the group of tasks not scheduleable, then the present invention conducts a second determination of scheduleability. If the second determination of scheduleability also deems the group of tasks not scheduleable, then the present invention recursively partitions the group of tasks in subsets and re-performs the second determination of scheduleability. Recursive partitioning continues until the group of tasks is deemed scheduleable or no longer partitionable. In the latter case, the group of tasks is deemed not scheduleable.
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