| 摘要 |
<p>Apparatus and method for dynamically reassigning between a plurality of personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) in a wireless network (1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000) one or more task portions (901-909) of a task (900) that have been distributed among the personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) in response to at least one of the personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) having diminishing access to electric power. A reassignment may be prompted by the remaining electric power available to one of the personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) diminishing to a predetermined level, and/or it may be prompted as a result of a goal of causing the remaining operating times of the personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) engaged in performing the task (900) to be as close to equal as possible. A reassignment may be prompted by the remaining electric power available to one of the personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) being changed either by the coupling of that personal portable device (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) to an external power supply or by a suspension of execution of a task routine (921, 922, 924, 925, 928, 929) associated with a task portion (901-909) that had been assigned to that personal portable device (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600). A reassignment of a particular task routine (921, 922, 924, 925, 928, 929) between two of the personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) may be forestalled as a result of it being impermissible to transmit a copy of a task routine (921, 922, 924, 925, 928, 929) associated with a task portion (901-909) and/or a piece of data (951, 954, 955, 959) associated with that task routine (921, 922, 924, 925, 928, 929) from one of the two personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) to the other. A task portion (901-909) reassigned between two personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) may be associated with communications between personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) and its reassignment may result in a changing in topological positions of the two personal portable devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) within the topology of the wireless network (1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000).</p> |
