A storage subsystem comprising a storage control unit and a number of failure independent storage devices, such as disk files, is provided with a check sum generator for generating a check sum segment from segments of a system record as the system record segments are being transferred between the st ...
A method is described for editing graphic objects in an interactive draw graphic system which selectively displays a menu of available editing actions in response to operation of one mouse button by the operator and allows the operator to cursor select the specific edit action from the menu to be ma ...
A method to maintain all of the information that is originally displayed in a window on the display screen in an interactive information handling system, as the size of the window is decreased. A plurality of character sets which have different appropriate width and height attributes are stored in t ...
An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system which includes a plurality of interactive terminals which are interconnected to permit an end user at each terminal to interchange information with each other and to maintain an electronic calendar. The method facilitates the reply ...
A method to help and displace Help Panels containing information to explain Command Functions, Command Syntax, and Command Parameters to the operator of an interactive information handling system in response to the entry of a "Command Help Request" into said system by said operator. The method displ ...
A method for accessing information in a page segmented virtual memory data processing system in which virtual machines running UNIX type operating systems are concurrently established, and in which a memory manager controls the transfer of information between primary and secondary storage devices in ...
A method for scheduling time initiated tasks from an Intelligent Work Station (IWS) of an SNA network in which a host processor has created a plurality of run ready virtual machines which are assigned under control of a Virtual Machine Pool Manager in response to an LU 6.2 allocate verb to establish ...
An online system is disclosed for mapping errors into an error map as data is transferred between a CPU and a relatively large fault tolerant semiconductor memory system without interfering with the normal use of the memory. The error mapping system permits a fault alignment exclusion mechanism to d ...
An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system having a plurality of interactive type workstations connected to a host processing unit in which the event calendaring process permits the availability of requested event resources to be confirmed automatically during the calendari ...
An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system has a plurality of workstations, each of which is assigned to a different individual who maintains an electronic calendar on the system. The method establishes a plurality of data structures for storing data that is entered into th ...
