COMPUTER SYSTEM, AGENT TRANSMITTING METHOD AND RESTORING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:JPH1153321A

    公开(公告)日:1999-02-26

    申请号:JP20289297

    申请日:1997-07-29

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restore an agent via another computer at a higher speed by adding a name and the version information to a head part and then transmitting the state data and finally a program code in an agent transfer mode. SOLUTION: An agent 5a gives a movement request to an agent execution environment 3, and the environment 3 stops the execution of the agent 5a and then acquires the name and version of a program that is used by the agent 5a. A retrieval module 53 uses the name and version of the program as keys to retrieve a cache mechanism 59 and acquires a necessary program code. Meanwhile, the internal state of the agent 5a is taken out by a state execution module 55 and sent to a bit string module 57. The module 57 arranges the name and version of the program at its head part, the state data and finally the program code respectively to generate a transmitting bit string.

    FILE SYSTEM
    2.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JPH0981430A

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-28

    申请号:JP22759395

    申请日:1995-09-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow the linking between applications by the access to a file. SOLUTION: This system has a file system interface means 3 converting the directory name and file name via an operating system interface according to a file system common interface 9, a bypass means preforming input/output beyond the file system common interface 9 and an operating system interface 7 when the input from the file system interface means 3 is received and a conversion means interpreting the directory name and the file name and converting them into the commands to proper programs when the input is received from the bypass means and a preliminarily determined directory name is designated.

    METHOD FOR MAKING PRINTER SYSTEM EXECUTE PRINTING, PRINTING EXECUTING METHOD, COMPUTER AND PRINTER SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:JPH11110143A

    公开(公告)日:1999-04-23

    申请号:JP24844097

    申请日:1997-09-12

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make executable the printing by automatically selecting another printer even when a fault occurs at a certain printer, by allocating a print job agent to a printer suitable for executing printing when executing printing through document monitor, and performing the printing at each printer. SOLUTION: Print data prepared by computers (1)3 and (2)5 are transmitted to printer systems (1)9, (2)11 and (3)13 as the print job agents while determining the printer system to print these data through document monitors (1)15a and (2)15b. At printer monitors (1)19a, (2)19b and (3)19c provided in the printer systems (1)9, (2)11 and (3)13, the print job agent is activated and the print job to be executed is executed. When all the printing are completed, the end of printing is reported to the document monitor as the transmission source of that print job agent.

    Transmission of a mobile agent and message to a computer

    公开(公告)号:GB2325824A

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-02

    申请号:GB9806474

    申请日:1998-03-27

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: To permit the movement of a mobile agent 1 and a message from a source computer 3 to a destination computer 4, regardless of the condition of the destination computer, a temporary storage area 32 (a computer 21 having a storage unit) is provided for a computer 4 that is the destination for mobile agents messages. When a mobile agent can not move directly to the destination computer, the mobile agent and the message are stored in the temporary storage area. At an appropriate time, the destination computer extracts from the temporary storage area the agent and the message addressed to it. Since the temporary storage area is provided, the movement of the agent and the transmission of the message are ensured. Also because the temporary storage area is provided, the destination computer can accept a mobile agent in accordance with the situation and the condition of the computer.

    DATA SUPPLY DEVICE
    6.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JPH0713707A

    公开(公告)日:1995-01-17

    申请号:JP2928993

    申请日:1993-02-18

    Applicant: IBM JAPAN

    Abstract: PURPOSE:To ensure the effective use of a storage and also to supply the data to a larger number of user terminal equipments. CONSTITUTION:The subcontrollers 241-24K successively read the unit data obtained by dividing and compressing the continuous animation image data out of the storages 261-26K according to the tokens stored in the queue of a system controller 14. Then the controller 14 supplies these unit data to the buffers 201-20M corresponding to the storages 261-26K respectively via a changeover switch 22 for connection corresponding to those tokens. The unit data stored in the buffers are supplied to the terminals 121-12M as the analog data on the animation images via the expanding devices 181-18M and D/A converters 161-16M. Therefore the unit data supplied from K pieces of storage are almost simultaneously given to K.N (=M) pieces of terminals.

    DATA BASE SYSTEM
    7.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JPS63273947A

    公开(公告)日:1988-11-11

    申请号:JP10021587

    申请日:1987-04-24

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A user friendly interface is provided to a database system using real world modelling and card-like display representation wherein the format of the display representation enables the user to select and move directly to another such representation. As an example, the combination of a relational data base, a complex syntax language for processing it and apparatus handling the data base by executing in the language enables the user, within reason, to perform the macro-operations which he would do were he using the data base provided on a manual card system. The structure of the data base is comprised of two classes of entity, "complicate" accessible by name or via another such entity, and "basic" accessible only via a complicate entity. An entity is stored as format and data separately, these being combined in entirety for display purposes and, in appropriate part, for syntax generation, when required. The number of possible formats is limited so that full selection is a two step operation - first, the format and then the data - by name or by relational operation. Both local and relational operations can be performed and selection of the operation to be performed is by menu. If a relational operation is instructed, selection of a field in the format of the starting entity on the display automatically generates, within the apparatus, the appropriate syntax frame, which is filled with the parameters corresponding to that part of the data segment of the entity that is displayed in the field. If the instructed operation is local, the syntax is not generated. Additional operation parameters and data can be entered from a keyboard.

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