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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5887168 | Computer program product for a shared queue structure for data integrity A shared queue is provided to allow any of a plurality of systems to process messages received by clients of a data processing environment. A received message is enqueued onto the shared queue. Any of the plurality of systems having available processing c... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5774729 | Event handling in a high level programming language environment A method and means for handling events in a computer system which occur during the execution of programs including routines prepared in a plurality of computer programming languages is described. The number and identity of each unique computer programming... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5754855 | System and method for managing control flow of computer programs executing in a computer system Processing an event signifying a condition in a computer system is described. The computer system maintains an invocation stack which includes a plurality of stack frames. Such event processing operates by selecting a stack frame from the invocation stack... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5751992 | Computer program product for continuous destaging of changed data from a shared cache in a multisystem shared disk environment wherein castout interest is established in a hierarchical fashion A computer program product for a system and method for destaging changed data from a shared cache castout in a shared data environment distributes castout ownership for a dataset among a plurality of systems having an update interest in the dataset. One s... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5721895 | Computer program product and program storage device for a data transmission dictionary for encoding, storing, and retrieving hierarchical data processing information for a computer system A data transmission dictionary is provided, which is adapted for use by a computer system for encoding, storing, or retrieving hierarchically related data transmission information. The dictionary is comprised of a group of one or more computer searchable ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5687365 | System and method for creating a data dictionary for encoding, storing, and retrieving hierarchical data processing information for a computer system A method of creating a data transmission dictionary by deriving a group of one of more computer searchable definition trees from a first definition group of nodes defining portions of commands, replies, or data usable by a computer system, compacting each... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5664181 | Computer program product and program storage device for a data transmission dictionary for encoding, storing, and retrieving hierarchical data processing information for a computer system A data transmission dictionary is provided, which is adapted for use by a computer system for encoding, storing, or retrieving hierarchically related data transmission information. The dictionary is comprised of a group of one or more computer searchable ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5659727 | Computer program product and program storage device for encoding, storing, and retrieving hierarchical data processing information for a computer system A data transmission dictionary is provided, which is adapted for use by a computer system for encoding, storing, or retrieving hierarchically related data transmission information. The dictionary is comprised of a group of one or more computer searchable ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5632031 | Method and means for encoding storing and retrieving hierarchical data processing information for a computer system A data transmission dictionary is provided, which is adapted for use by a computer system for encoding, storing, or retrieving hierarchically related data transmission information. The dictionary is comprised of a group of one or more computer searchable ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5632015 | Computer program product to efficiently process diverse result sets returned by a stored procedure A system for processing diverse and non-diverse result sets is described. The system includes a client process in a client computer system that constructs a client process execution request identifying a stored procedure and specifying constraints on the ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5623676 | Computer program product and program storage device for safing asynchronous interrupts Processing of an asynchronous signal directed to a thread comprising a software routine executing in a computer system such that data consistency is maintained is discussed. Such processing proceeds by determining whether the routine is signal safe such t... | 04/22/1997 |
