Method for synchronizing sets of interacting processes

- IBM

allows a set of processes to operate cyclically on a set of shared resources (e.g. I/O buffers). Each process is allowed to proceed at its own speed, subject only to a synchronization condition that it does not operate simultaneously on a resource with any member of the next (cyclic) subset of processes.

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Description
Patent History
Patent number: T971005
Type: Grant
Filed: May 13, 1977
Date of Patent: Jun 6, 1978
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Inventor: William Wilkinson Collier (Wappingers Falls, NY)
Application Number: 5/796,786
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: 364/300
International Classification: G06F 900;