A method of limiting, in a digital processor, low-priority utilization of a resource in favor of high-priority utilization of the resource comprises determining a value predictive of high-priority utilization of the resource. Low-priority utilization of the resource is inhibited if the determined predictive...http://www.google.de/patents/US6324616?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6324616 - Dynamically inhibiting competing resource requesters in favor of above threshold usage requester to reduce response delay