International Business Machines Corporation

Thomas Allen Hendrickson

Donald Lloyd Pierce

Robert W Roefer

George C Macauley

Alan B Strickland

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A peripheral processor has an architecture wherein the function controlling information of a program is separated from portions of the sequence of execution controlling information and each are stored in the form of tables. The function controlling information takes the form of a table including a plurality of function specifying entries. The function execution sequence controlling information takes the form of a table of pointers. In this invention, function controlling entries, each having a plurality of fields for defining, modifying, and specifying the functions and related data to be executed, need not be repetitively duplicated throughout the program. Instead, the shorter pointers to the function table entries can be provided in the sequence table in the sequence in which the functions are to be executed. In a keyboard display controller application, further economy of storage is obtained by retaining a first level of function specifying information in the sequence table in the form of a bit identifying whether the function to be executed is a complex function, in which case the pointer identifies an entry in the function control statement table, or whether the function to be executed is merely the display of information on the display, in which case the pointer in the sequence table entry specifies an entry in a guidance table.

Interactive transactions processor using sequence table pointers to

In a digital data transmission system, a unique character marks the beginning of a data message. The speed at which that character is transmitted is sensed and the receiver speed set accordingly through the provision of a counter to count successive one-state bits in a constant speed dibit carrier for the unique character. A decoder responds to particular dibit counts to set speed latches corresponding to the speed at which the character was transmitted.

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Poughkeepsie, NY, United States of America

Thomas Allen Hendrickson