International Business Machines Corporation

Douglas H Cox

Baiju Dhirajlal Mandalia

James Johnson Allen, Jr

Vijay Dheap

Ronald J Cooper

William Lloyd McNeil

Terri L Tomlinson

Herbert Rivera-Sanchez

The present invention includes a method and system for invoking service offerings. The method can include the steps of initiating () a push-to-service request, enabling () a Voice Recognition Server (VRS), ranking () a list of supported service offerings, and presenting the list on a display for identifying at least one service offering that is available as a service to the user. The method and system can include speaking () a voice request for selecting at least one service presented on the display, and establishing () a communication dialogue with a service provider of the service for connecting the service provider for providing the service to the user. The push-to-service request can be invoked by a user depressing a service button () on the first communication unit () using a push-action. The VRS () can handle the voice request and generate a list of service offerings ranked by priority for presentation on the display. The process can include a control protocol to negotiate at least one device characteristic with at least one service provider.

Method and system for invoking push-to-service offerings

A system and method for controlling a communications adapter interface such that supplemental data can be interleaved with data being transferred. The interleaving is performed in a manner such that the supplemental data is transparent to the data mover portion of the communications adapter. The supplemental data can be transferred in either read or write cycles that are interleaved at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of data bursts or block data transfers. As a result of the interleaving, the slave interface bus is more fully utilized because arbitration and bus ownership changes do not create unused cycles. The interleaving is accomplished by temporarily halting an existing transfer of data and transferring the requested supplemental data while the data transfer is halted. After the supplemental data is transferred, the transfer of the balance of the data block is then allowed to continue. In other words, the present invention 'steals' a cycle from the data transferror and uses this cycle to transfer supplemental data.

Adapter for interleaving second data with first data already transferred

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Douglas H Cox