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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:
Feb. 15, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395725 ; 395425 ; 395650 ; 395200 ; 395600 ; 3642466 ; 3642468 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A data processing method is designed to provide two-mode locks of an exclusive mode lock and a shared mode lock in serializing the access to a shared data list being concurrently processed among processes and release the shared mode lock and simultaneously obtain the exclusive mode lock if no process obtains the lock as a result of releasing the process out of the shared mode lock.