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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1985
Xuan N Pham, Austin, TX (US);
John H Wilson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An application programming interface enables system hardware resources to interact with application programs to provide a plurality of signal processing functions. Conflicting resource requirements by the application programs are detected. An application may preempt a currently executing application by claiming the hardware resources currently in use. The application from which resources have been claimed is identified so that it may be resumed when the required resources become once again available. Before the resources from a given application are claimed by another application, the user is provided a warning so that he may alter the order in which the applications are run.