Patent
1995-06-07
1997-05-13
Kriess, Kevin A.
395675, 39520003, G06F 1300, G06F 1500
Patent
active
056301332
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a distributed computer system having a plurality of end user terminals and a plurality of loosely coupled server computers that share no resources with each other. A multiplicity of user application processes are distributed over the server computers. A transaction start table, stored on a first one of the server computers, stores transaction start data representing transactions whose execution has been requested by other transactions being executed by the user application processes. The transaction start data indicates a start condition for each transaction whose execution has been requested. For most requested transactions the start condition is a time value indicating an earliest time at which the requested transaction's execution should be started. When any of the user application processes executes a Start transaction function, a transaction start record is generated and stored in the transaction start table. The transaction start record is stored in the same transaction start table on the first server computer regardless of which server computer executes the Start transaction function. A transaction start process evaluates the start condition for each transaction whose execution has been requested. When the start condition for a requested transaction is satisfied, the transaction start process initiates execution of that requested transaction.
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de Roo John S.
Hotea Andreas E.
Phillips Mark
Velasco David G.
Kriess Kevin A.
Tandem Computers Incorporated
Toplu Lucien
Williams Gary S.
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