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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Mark Phillips, Campbell, CA (US);
John S de Roo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andreas E Hotea, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert W Redd, Roswell, GA (US);
Tandem Computers, Incorporated, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a distributed computer system having a plurality of end user terminals and a plurality of loosely coupled server computers that share no resources with each other. A multiplicity of user application processes are distributed over the server computers. A temporary storage file is stored on a first one of the server computers, for temporarily storing queues of data records. Each user application process responds to execution of a WriteQ TS instruction specifying data to be stored in a specified temporary storage queue by generating and storing at least one TS data record in the temporary storage file representing the specified data. Each TS data record has a primary key indicating the record's position in the specified temporary storage queue. Each TS data record is stored in the same temporary storage file on the first server computer regardless of which server computer executes the WriteQ TS instruction. Each user application process also responds to execution of a ReadQ TS instruction specifying a temporary storage queue from which data is to be retrieved, by reading at least one TS data record from the temporary storage file.