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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
George J Barlow, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Frank V Cassarino, Jr, Weston, MA (US);
John W Conway, Waltham, MA (US);
David B O'Keefe, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3401725 ;
Abstract
A central processing system which includes a plurality of units coupled over a common electrical bus for the transfer of information between any two units, includes one unit in which there is a shareable resource such as a memory for example. Apparatus is provided for any units to share such resource. Further apparatus is provided for enabling any of such units so sharing the resource to lock out any other unit which presents a specified control signal to the unit incorporating the resource.