International Business Machines Corporation

Kenneth Edward Davies

Donna N Dillenberger

Glyn Normington

Bruce E Naylor

Harrison Scofield

Jeffrey N Stevens

Mark J Kline

Alexander T Maluta

Walter C Geddes

A group of object servers configured for workload management is described wherein the group exports an object reference to clients that may want to call the group in order to perform some work. The object reference has a field which points to a workload management unit which performs workload management among the group at the Internet Protocol (IP) level.

Workload management amongst server objects in a client/server network

An expert system is provided which can be accessed by other application programs operating within any of the available operating environments in a general purpose computer system. In this architecture, an expert system consultation subsystem provides the means for performing expert consultations. Included within the expert system subsystem is a task manager which initiates and manages a plurality of concurrent consultations. Interface programming provides the capability for the expert system consultation subsystem to communicate and pass data and commands between it and other application programs operating within the computer system. Further, means are provided to allow the expert system subsystem to access data stored on database management systems.

Expert system architecture

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Kenneth Edward Davies