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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2000
Wayne D. Ward, New Brighton, MN (US);
David R. Johnson, Oakdale, MN (US);
David C. Johnson, Roseville, MN (US);
Charles R. Caldarale, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Wayne D. Ward, New Brighton, MN (US);
David R. Johnson, Oakdale, MN (US);
David C. Johnson, Roseville, MN (US);
Charles R. Caldarale, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
In a computer system a system of exchanging tokens for queue banks is created that permits a requester to directly specify which queue bank is wanted. Only the desired queue bank is withdrawn from a queue bank repository to accomplish this and no sorting or FIFO handling of queue banks is needed. The system uses a schema similar to a coat check room, where the requester is given a token when the requestor wants to deposit a queue bank into the queue bank repository. The queue bank repository returns the queue bank when the token is returned by the requester. In its most efficient form, two machine-level instructions handle the entire operation, a withdraw instruction and a deposit instruction.