METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING THE EVENT WAIT LIST ANCHOR AS A LOCK FOR EVENTS

Patent №

US 5,961,583

Granted

1999-10-05

Filed 1996

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08755274

A method and apparatus for maintaining a list for threads which are awaiting their occurrence of event. First a thread is detected that desires to perform some type of action based upon the occurrence of an event. Thereafter, the value of an event list anchor is set to indicate that it is currently unavailable. Thereafter, the value of the event list anchor set equal to the identification of the second thread.

AI classification

AI hardware0.53
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 83240722

Assignors

VAN FLEET, JAMES W.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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