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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2009
Applicants:
David Blair Gilgen, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Daniel Wigger, Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
David Blair Gilgen, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Daniel Wigger, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An invention is disclosed for a computer software timeout algorithm that reduces the amount of list manipulation needed to satisfy system or network requirements for scheduling and cancelling timeout requests to determine whether the expiration time has been reached for execution of an input/output (I/O) request, thereby requiring action to cancel the I/O operation if it has not yet been completed.