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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2003
Nicholas D. Fifer, Tucson, AZ (US);
Frederick James Carberry, Ii, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Henry Travis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alex Chen, Tucson, AZ (US);
Theodore Timothy Harris, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);
Nicholas D. Fifer, Tucson, AZ (US);
Frederick James Carberry, II, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Henry Travis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alex Chen, Tucson, AZ (US);
Theodore Timothy Harris, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided is a method, system and program for synchronizing sequential subtasks of a task, so that the subtasks can be dispatched to generate operations in a particular sequence. In one embodiment, a subtask which has been prepared for dispatching is queued in a queue until the queued subtask is the next subtask in sequence for dispatching. In one embodiment, the subtasks may be sorted in the queue by task and by subtask sequence.