Managing component configurations in a computer system

Details Managing component configurations in a computer system Managing component configurations in a computer system

G - Physics

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G06F 15/177 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2640973

Methods and apparatus are provided for managing relationships between individual components and configurations assembled to fulfill requirements in a computer system. In one embodiment, a method is provided whereby a configuration which includes a set of components is dynamically modified to add an additional component, so that the additional component can communicate with at least some of the set of components to fulfill a requirement. In one illustrative implementation in a retail store environment, a cash register configuration is dynamically modified to incorporate a handheld scanning device during periods of high customer traffic, so that a store employee can use the scanning device to provide input to the cash register while it would otherwise have sat idle (e.g., while the cashier is bagging another customer's items).

L'invention concerne des procédés et des appareils permettant de gérer les relations entre des composants individuels et des configurations assemblées afin de satisfaire les exigences dans un système informatique. Un mode de réalisation concerne un procédé dans lequel une configuration qui comprend une série de composants est dynamiquement modifiée afin d'ajouter un composant additionnel, de sorte que le composant additionnel puisse communiquer avec au moins certains des composants de ladite série de composants afin de satisfaire une exigence. Dans une mise en oeuvre représentative dans un environnement de magasin de détail, une configuration de caisse enregistreuse est modifiée dynamiquement afin d'intégrer un dispositif de balayage portatif pendant des périodes de forte affluence de clients, de façon qu'un employé du magasin puisse utiliser le dispositif de balayage afin de solliciter la caisse enregistreuse, laquelle serait autrement restée inactive (par exemple, pendant que le/la caissier/ère ensache un autre article acheté par le consommateur).

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