Application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms

US6026426A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Peter Richard Badovinatz · Kingston, US
• Marion L. Blount · Mahopac, US
• Larry Bert Brenner · Austin, US
• Tushar Deepak Chandra · Los Altos, US
• Ajei Sarat Gopal · Yonkers, US
• Dennis D. Jurgensen · Belford, US
• Marc A. Kaplan · Bethel, US
• Orvalle Theodore Kirby · Pleasant Valley, US
• John Arthur Pershing, Jr. · Somers, US
• John J. Turek · West Lafayette, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 24, 1997
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2000
• Expiry date: Oct 24, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/465
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An application programming interface that unifies a plurality of mechanisms into a single framework. The interface includes a mechanism for communicating between members of a process group of related processes, and a mechanism for synchronizing the related processes of the process group. Additionally, the application programming interface may include mechanisms for managing membership of the process group or a processor group of processors, and/or a mechanism for controlling a group state value for the process group.