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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1998
Daniel F. Casper, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Joseph C. Elliott, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to concept of transferring information in a program storage device and a computer program device readable by a digital processing apparatus and a program means on the program storage device and including instructions executable by the digital processing apparatus for performing method steps for transferring of information in a network computing system. The method steps include: sending packets of data consecutively to and from said main storage; transferring execution of certain channel functions to said control unit so that certain commands can be combined with said data packets in one sequence; and sending only one start data command and only one end command notification before and after a plurality of data packets is transferred respectively.