System for locating resources resided in a distributing processing system by sequentially transmitting resource inquiries through a looped transmission line
US4941084A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 27, 1988 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2008 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L9/40
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A resource management system and method in a distributed processing system in which a plurality of computers are interconnected through a transmission line. A computer makes, upon accessing to a resource of another computer, inquiries about "Whether the intended resource exists" and "Ordering that if the intended resource exists, the interrogated computer should return a response indicative of attribute information of that resource" by using a so-called broadcasting function to simultaneously apprize all the computers constituting the distributed processing system of the same message.
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