BACKGROUND There is a variety of reasons why users or administrators may want to
schedule certain application programs to process at defined dates, times, intervals, or even …

BACKGROUND It is not uncommon for an enterprise to have hundreds, if not thousands of
computer systems. These computer systems typically operate under the control of software …

BACKGROUND 0002 Scheduling software to run in a computer system involves determining
when to allow each process or thread to have access to the processor or other resource …

BACKGROUND A conventional approach to upgrading a Software applica tion which is
running on a computer system involves shutting down a first version of the application. Once …

BACKGROUND A hosted application is a software application where the Software resides
on servers that are accessed through a wide area network, Such as the Internet, rather than …

BACKGROUND Maintenance and/or upgrade activities on computer sys tems are ideally
performed when the computer systems are under-utilized. In some computer systems, it may …

BACKGROUND Computer systems, such as servers and desktop personal computers, are
expected to operate without constant monitor ing. These computer systems typically perform …

2. Description of Related Art Modern operating systems support multiprogramming, whereby
multiple programs appear to execute concurrently on a single computational device with a …

Today's computer Systems are relied upon to perform a variety of operations. Performance
of the requested opera tions requires the use of various System resources (eg, processor …

BACKGROUND 0001 For information management (IM) applications Such as data
protection, one major administrative task is to maintain schedules for jobs that have to be …