Appeal No. 96-3144
Application 08/322,111
BACKGROUND
The present invention relates to a method and system for estimating the time
remaining to complete a task running on a multitasking workstation. The system and
method periodically update the best estimate of the time remaining to complete a task as
the multitasking workstation processor undergoes changes in the data processing
workload. A succession of update estimates are derived and displayed to a user. Each of
the succesive estimates uses a task execution rate adjusted for the last increment of time.
The iterations of the calculations improve the estimate accuracy.
Appellant has indicated that all the claims are grouped into a single group and
stand or fall together. (See brief at page 6.)
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. Method for estimating and displaying a time to completion of a task
executing on a multitasking workstation, comprising the steps of:
operating the workstation in a multitasking mode;
driving a display by the workstation;
generating through a first calculation in the workstation a first estimate
of time to completion of a specified task based upon a size and a
rate of execution of the specified task over an increment of time;
generating through a plurality of successive calculations revised
estimates of time to completion based upon successively later
incremental measurements of the rate of execution, where the revised
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