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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:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven K. Masters, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael C. Timpanaro-Perrotta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
Abstract
Provided is a method, system, and program for maintaining status information on data transmitted to an output device. Data is transmitted to an Input/Output (I/O) device. The I/O device stores the transmitted data in a computer readable medium memory. A determination is made as to whether a fixed amount of data exceeding a threshold was transmitted. An indication is made that transmitted data equivalent to the fixed amount was successfully outputted from the computer readable medium after determining that the fixed amount of data exceeding the threshold was transmitted.