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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1988
Bradley J Beitel, Woodside, CA (US);
Robert D Gordon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ming C Hao, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Steven V Kauffman, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald L Obermarck, Redwood City, CA (US);
Arthur M Sherman, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Lynne C Thieme, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gene E Trivett, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Lynn Trivett, Portola Valley, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for synchronizing common values in a distributed system, at least one node of which is a cyclic, rule-based, object-sensitive production system. Values altered in one part of the system are implicity rather than explicitly communicated and processed to and from the rule-based node. All communications to the rule-based node of common values changed by the nonrule-based nodes are by way of a list independent of and concurrently with any procedural request of the rule-based node, there being no necessary relation between the list contents and the procedural request.