A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to...http://www.google.de/patents/US8018614?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8018614 - Method and apparatus for assigning candidate processing nodes in a stream-oriented computer system
