Patent · US Expired

Program product for an application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms

US6216150A · kind A · utility

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3Claims

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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	Apr 10, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 24, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/505
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Program product for 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.

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